The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-09
President Smith Declares
Government Should
Suppress Anarchic
Tendencies and Mob
Rule.

Rule.
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was Wilford Woodruff, his fellow apostle
and pioneer.
He was OF English and Puritan des-
| cent. his fathers ancestor, Lieutenant
William Pratt, being among the tirst set.
tiers OF Hartford Conn. Lieutenant
Pratts father was Reverend William
| Pratt Of Stevendge. Hertfordshire. Eng
| Orson Pratt was born at Hartford. Wash
lngton county. New York, September -:
Isll His parents were Jared Pratt and
! his wife Charity Dickinson. Orson was
next 10 the Youngest OF six children. HIS
elder brother. Parley. was destined Ike
himself To become a noted preacher and
writer and one OF the earliest settlers
Of the Rocky Mountain region. Jared
| Pratt was weaver and tiller OF the
soil, He had no faith in, .creeds or
moral and 10 believe In the Bible.
"Orson received his first schooling at
] New Lebanon. Columbia county. in his
native state. To that place the family
moved when he was ; or I years old
He was sent 10 school several months in
each year until the spring of l$22: when
in school or out. his studious mind was
always at work, and at intervals he
picked ND "A knowledge Of arithmetic
bookkeeping. geography. grammar and
surveying.
Converted by Brother.
Though a frequent reader of the
Scriptures he was not deeply concerned
about religion until the autumn OF 1929.
when he began TO pray fervcntly for spir
| ltual light and guidance. About year
later TWO elders OF the Church OF Jesus
Christ OF Latter day Saints came into his
| neighborhood and held meetings. Ono %
| these elders was his brother Parley Z,
| Pratt, by whom Orson was baptized on
| the nineteenth anniversary of his birth.
| October OF that year found him at Fay
cite. Seneca county. The birthplace OF
| the church, which was then only six
months old While there he met
| the prophet Joseph Smith. and was con
firmed by him member and ordained an
| elder on the first day OF November, 1890.
His first mission. taken soon after. was
70 Colesyile, in Broone county.
Early In 1881 he followed the for
tunes OF the saints to Ohio, and at kirt-
land, where he presided over the elders,
! was ordained high priest by Sidney
| Risdon. From that time forth he was
up branches OF the church Among his
converts In the eastern states were his
brother Arson. Hurlgate. Long Island
Amasa NJ Lyman at Bath. \. II; and
| the Farr. Snow and Gates families, in
Vermont
Orson Pratt helped to organize zions
camp and during the journey To Missouri.
whittier the expedition went TO reinstate
| the Jackson county saints upon the
| lands from which they had been driven
| by mob violence, he had charge OF sew
eral wagons When cholera broke out
In camp he was one of those attacked by
Il. but his great faith and iron will saved
him. while others perished. In Missouri
he was member Of the high council.
Chosen Apostle.
a, Columbus, o.. in April. 1885. he
learned that he had been chosen one of
the twelve apostles. and was expected
10 be at Kirkland on the twenty-siAth OF
that month for ordination. 4 journey u
two days by stagecoach enabled him &c
arrive there on the Gay appointed, and
he was ordained an apostle under the
hands OF David Wh,tmer and Oliver
Cowderys Two or the three witnesses lo
he Book of Mormon
| when the church moved from. Ohio
Orson Pratt was presiding over large
To Far West. Mo. which had become The
headquarters of the Latter-D Day Saints, he
was on his way there with his family
and had reached ST Louis where he wai
Ice bound. the river being frozen. when
he learned OF the expulsion of his peo-
pie from that state, He rejoined them at
/ Quincy, Ill. in the spring of 1899.
Work in England
Delayed by the founding OF Nauvoo
| Illinois. and by an epidemic OF fever and
asue that swept over. the newly settled re-
gion. the apostles did not cross the Al"
| lantic until about Il year later. Land
ing al Liverpool. penniless and aSlone
strangers. they remained in Great Brit
! ain a little over twelve months during
which period they baptized seven or eight
| thousand persons. and raised up branches
| OF the church in almost every noted city
and town throughout the United King
dom. They also established a period
| ical, The MilIennial Star with Psrley
| p Pratt as editor published five thou
sand copies of the Book of Mormon, fifty
| thousand tracts and three thousand HYMN
| books besides emigrating thousand
people 10 Nsuvoo, and founding per-
mancnt emigration agency. The Brit
by iieber G. kimball and orson Hyde
with their associates now its founda
tions were laid broad and deep.
In the assignment Of mission fields
| Scotland fell 10 Orson Pratt,
During the next few years he resided
al Nauvoo, where he had charge OF q
mathema teal school and was a mem
ber OF the city caunci He also fllet
missions In the east and at the cit.
OF Washington calculated eclipses and
prepared an almanac for publication ir
Almanac. and was calculated from thr
latitude and meridian Of Nauvoo anc
other American towns. From 1886 Il
1844' says the apostle i occupied mucl
Of my leisure time In study and mad,
/ myself thoroughly acquainted with al
zebra geometry. trigonornetry, comic sec
tons, dfferentIaI and integral calculus
astronomy and most of the physical sci
ences. These studies ! pursued withou
the assistance Of a teacher He wa
in the east when the prophet and th'
| patriarch were slain and returned &
Nauvoo soon after the martyrd0n.
Led the Way.
THE exodus of the Latter day Saints
from Illinois began in February. 1916
The Mississippi river was frozen ove
and some OF the companies crossed or
the ice. Orson Pratt who had recent,
returned from another eastern mission
was one of the leaders OF this migratori
movement, which was destined 10 redeem
an arid waste and found an empire 1.
the heart Of the Great American desert
where leaders in council decided To senc
company of pioneers 10 the Rock,
mountains In advance Of the main bod,
OF the people. Preparations for this ex
: pedition were under way when, at th'
Bluffs. in July iS46 the enlistment o
the Mormon battalion. five hundred vol
rnteers. part OF the United state
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