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unusual facts about Stake President



Rancho San Bernardino

In 1851, the Lugo family sold the Rancho to a group of almost 500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) led by Captain David Seely (later first Stake President), Captain Jefferson Hunt and Captain Andrew Lytle, and included Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich.

Russell T. Osguthorpe

Osguthorpe has served in the LDS Church as president of the South Dakota Rapid City Mission from 2003 to 2006, an area seventy and member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy from 2007 to 2009, and as president of the BYU 18th Stake from 1997 to 2002.


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Christoffel Golden Jr.

Though he had served previously as a stake president, in 1995, the Roodepoort South Africa Stake was created, with Golden serving as the first president.