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salt lake city cemetery 29 march 1912 salt lake city , utah , united states utica , new york , united states 40.7772 cemetery -111.8580 type : landmark inline salt lake city 07 november 1826 photo of hiram b. clawson hiram b. clawson.jpg hiram b. clawson
 hiram b. clawson
hiram b. clawson

hiram b. clawson -lrb- november 7 , 1826 -- march 29 , 1912 -rrb- was a latter-day saint businessman and church leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries .
clawson was born in utica , new york .
he was educated at the utica academy .
in 1838 he joined the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints along with his widowed mother .
in 1841 they moved to nauvoo .
clawson went west with the latter-day saints , arriving in salt lake city in 1848 .
he supervised the building of the first adobe building in salt lake city and then was the head mason for the council house of which truman angell was the architect .
also for a time while angell was away on a mission clawson served as acting architect of the salt lake temple .
clawson was a close associate of brigham young and for many years served as his business manager .
he also was involved in the building of the salt lake theatre and was often a performer in its plays .
clawson was also for a time manager of the theatre .
clawson served as an aide-de-camp to daniel h. wells in running the nauvoo legion in 1850 .
he later served as adjutant general of the legion from 1863 until the legion was disbanded in 1870 .
in 1865 clawson bought out william h. hooper to become partners with horace s. eldredge .
clawson and eldredge dissolved their firm in 1868 and sold it to zion 's cooperative mercantile institution -lrb- zcmi -rrb- .
clawson was then the general superintendent of zcmi from 1868-1873 .
after being replaced for a short time by hooper clawson took over the head of zcmi again from 1874-1875 .
in 1875 clawson bought the agriculture , hide and wool departments of zcmi which he ran as an independent business until 1885 .
from 1884 until 1902 clawson served as the bishop of the twelfth ward in salt lake city .
