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Presented the General Authorities and officers of the

Heber J. Grant, General Authority

1919 October General Conference·Second Day Morning Session·1919-10-04

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

General Authorities

Heber J. Grant, 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.

Anthon H. Lund, as President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. Rudger Clawson, as Acting President of the Council. As members of the Council of Twelve Apostles: Rudger Clawson, Reed Smoot, George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph Fielding Smith, James E. Talmage, Stephen L. Richards, Richard R. Lyman, Melvin J. Ballard.

Hyrum G. Smith, as Presiding Patriarch.

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

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

Charles W. Nibley, as Presiding Bishop with David A. Smith and John Wells as his First and Second Counselors.

Heber J. Grant, 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, with Andrew Jenson, Brigham H. Roberts, Joseph Fielding Smith, August William Lund, Assistant Historians.

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

Members of the General Church Board of Education: Heber J. Grant, Anthon H. Lund, Charles W. Penrose, Willard Young, Rudger Clawson, Orson F. Whitney, Joseph Fielding Smith, David O. McKay, Stephen L. Richards, Richard R. Lyman, Arthur Winter, Secretary and Treasurer.

Commissioners of Education: David O. McKay, Stephen L. Richards, Richard R. Lyman, Adam S. Bennion, Superintendent.

Tabernacle Choir: Anthony C. Lund, Conductor; B. Cecil Gates, Assistant Conductor; John J. McClellan, Organist; Edward P. Kimball, and Tracy Y. Cannon, Assistant Organists; George C. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer. And all the members of the choir.

Auxiliary Organizations

General Board of Relief Society

Relief Society. — Officers: Emmeline B. Wells, President; Clarissa S. Williams, First Counselor; Julina L. Smith, Second Counselor; Amy B. Lyman, Secretary; Susa Y. Gates, Corresponding Secretary; Emma A. Empey, Treasurer.

Members of Board : Sarah Jenne Cannon, Romania B. Penrose, • Emily S. Richards, Julia P. M. Farnsworth, Phebe Y. Beattie, Ida S. Dusenberry, Carrie S. Thomas, Elizabeth S. Wilcox, Rebecca N. Nibley, Elizabeth C. McCune, Edna May Davis, Sarah M. McLelland, Elizabeth Crismon, Jeanette A. Hyde, Sarah Eddington, Lillian Cameron, Donnette S. Kesler.

General Board of Deseret Sunday School Union

Sunday Schools. — Officers: David O. McKay, Superintendent;

Stephen L. Richards, First Assistant; George D. Pyper, Second Assistant ; Laurence W. Richards, Secretary ; John F. Bennett, Treasurer.

Members of Board: Hugh J. Cannon, Seymour B. Young, Andrew Kimball, John M. Mills, George M. Cannon, James E. Talmage, Horace H. Cummings, Josiah Burrows, William A. Morton, Harold

G. Reynolds, Charles B. Felt, George H. Wallace, Nathan T. Porter, Howard R. Driggs, Milton Bennion, Horace S. Ensign, Henry H. Rolapp, Edwin G. Woolley, Jr., Hyrum G. Smith, Charles H. Hart, Joseph Ballantyne, J. Leo Fairbanks, J. W. Walker, Ephraim G. Gowans, E. Conway Ashton, Adam S. Bennion, Edward P. Kimball, Tracy Y. Cannon, George N. Child, Frank K. Seegmiller, Charles J. Ross.

General Board of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association

Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. — Officers: Anthony W. Ivins, General Superintendent; B. H. Roberts, First Assistant; Richard R. Lyman, Second Assistant; Moroni Snow, General Secretary.

Members of Board : J. Golden Kimball, Junius F. Wells, George

H. Brimhall, Edward H. Anderson, Thomas Hull, Willard Done, Le Roi C. Snow, Rulon S. Wells, Joseph W. McMurrin, Bryant S. Hinckley, Brigham F. Grant, Lewis T. Cannon, Benjamin Goddard, George Albert Smith, Thomas A. Clawson, Lyman R. Martineau, Charles H. Hart, John A. Widtsoe, James H. Anderson, Oscar A. Kirkham, George F. Richards, Nephi Anderson, John H. Taylor, 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, Ernest P. Horsley, Preston Nibley, Melvin J. Ballard.

General Board of Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association

Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. — Officers: Martha H. Tingey, President; Ruth May .Fox, First Counselor; May T. Nystrom, Second Counselor; Clarissa A. Beesley, Secretary; Margaret Summerhays, Chorister.

Members of the Board : Honorary Member, Maria Y. Dougall; Adella W. Eardley, Agnes Campbell, Ann M. Cannon, May Booth Talmage, Emma Goddard, Rose W. Bennett, Alice K. Smith, Julia M. Brixen, Augusta W. Grant, Emily Caldwell Adams, Mary E. Connelly, Elen Wallace, Lucy W. Smith, Jane B. Anderson, Edith R. Lovsey, Laura Bennion Dimond, Rachel Grant Taylor, Sarah Richards Cannon, Lucy M. S. Carter, Charlotte Stewart, Lucy Grant Cannon, Emily Hillam Higgs, Martha G. Smith, Catherine Folsom.

General Board of Primary Association

Primary Association. — Officers: Louie B. Felt, President; May Anderson, First Counselor ; Clara W. Beebe, Second Counselor ; Genet Bingham Dee, Secretary and Treasurer; Matilda W. Cahoon, Chorister; Jane Romney Crawford, Organist; Physical Directors: Ann Nebeker, Edna Harker Thomas.

Honorary Members of Board: Lillie T. Freeze, Josephine R. West, Aurelia S. Rogers.

Members of Board : Eliza S. Bennion, Edith H. Lambert, Ella S. Capener, Georgina F. Richards, Vilate S. Chambers, Helen Davis, Marion B. Kerr, Nellie A. Talmage, Cordia H. Smith, Zina Y. Card, Sadie Grant Pack.

Advisors to the Association: Anthony W. Ivins, David O. McKay.

General Board of Religion Class

Religion Class. — Officers: Rudger Clawson, Superintendent; Joseph Fielding Smith, First Assistant; William A. Morton, Second Assistant and Secretary.

Members of Board: Horace H. Cummings, Rulon S. Wells, Joseph W. McMurrin, John Henry Evans, Joseph J. Cannon, George Albert Smith, Orson F. Whitney, James E. King, George F. Richards, George H. Brimhall, P. Joseph Jensen, Willard Young, N. Andrew Jensen, Guy C. Wilson, Levi Edgar Young, John Wells, Newell K. Young.

Edward H. Anderson, clerk of the general conference.

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