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6 unusual facts about Lorenzo Snow


Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Brigham Young, Jr. (9 December 1899—10 October 1901) : When Lorenzo Snow became President of the Church, the next senior Apostles, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, were asked by Snow to be counselors in the First Presidency.

Finances of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

By the time Lorenzo Snow became Church president in 1898, the church was $2.3 million in debt.

Lorenzo Snow

The role of Lorenzo Snow was played by Francis L. Urry in the LDS Church made film The Windows of Heaven.

President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

But before his death in 1898, he advised the President of the Twelve, Lorenzo Snow, "Do not wait, Brother Snow, but proceed at once to reorganize the First Presidency".

Public relations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Bureau of Information, the predecessor of the Temple Square Visitors Centers was started on Temple Square in Salt Lake City with Le Roi Snow, a son of Lorenzo Snow, as the first director.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii

In response Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow of the quorum of the 12 were sent to take over the leadership of the mission with the assistance of Joseph F. Smith who had been a missionary in Hawaii fro much of the 1850s.


Isaac Morley

Some years after becoming a member of the LDS church in 1830, he practiced plural marriage, taking Leonora Snow (the older sister of Lorenzo and Eliza R. Snow) and Hannah Blakesley (also found as Blaixly or Blakeslee) as his second and third wife in 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Lorenzo Snow Young

Young was the grandchild of two LDS Church presidents, Brigham Young and Lorenzo Snow.

Mantua, Utah

Mantua was settled in the mid-19th century when future LDS President and then apostle and head church authority in Box Elder County Lorenzo Snow sent settlers to the valley to grow flax.


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