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    John Andreas Widtsoe (/ˈwɪtsoʊ/; January 31, 1872 – November 29, 1952) was a Norwegian-American scientist, author, and religious leader who was a member...
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  • Widtsoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John A. Widtsoe (1872–1952), Mormon official Leah D. Widtsoe (1874–1965), Mormon official...
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    Widtsoe (/ˈwɪtsoʊ/) is a ghost town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. Located in John's Valley northeast of Bryce Canyon and along the Sevier River...
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  • Anthony W. Ivins as Second Counselor to Heber J. Grant. 17 March 1921 John A. Widtsoe ordained. 16 May 1925 Charles W. Penrose dies. 28 May 1925 Anthony...
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    Brigham Young, compiled by John A. Widtsoe, Deseret Book Company, 1977 Michael W. Homer (2014). "Utah Freemasonry: Solomon Built a Temple for Giving Endowments"...
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    Chicago. He became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 9, 1953, filling a vacancy created by the death of John A. Widtsoe. Bennion served...
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    2, 1921, from a duodenal ulcer, an ailment that plagued him for many years. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. John A. Widtsoe was called to the...
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    the use of meat is sparingly. In a pamphlet written in 1930 called The Word of Wisdom, LDS Church apostle John A. Widtsoe taught that refined flour was contrary...
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  • a theology more similar to Orson Pratt's, as expounded by turn-of-the century Mormon theologians James E. Talmage, B. H. Roberts, and John A. Widtsoe...
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  • Osborne John Peder Widtsoe (December 12, 1877 – March 14, 1920) was principal of the Latter-day Saints University in Salt Lake City, Utah and a professor...
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    2307/44758644. JSTOR 44758644. S2CID 133116819. Jessee 1984, p. 324 Widtsoe 1950 John A. Widtsoe stated that the account of Zelph "is not of much value in Book...
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    Israeli schools to serve as a rebuke of Israel's Palestinian policies. In January 2008, Machen publicly endorsed U.S. Senator John McCain for President of...
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    Report (Guthrie, OK: n.p. 1908) Dr. John A. Widtsoe, Ph.D. Dry-Farming, A System Of Agriculture For Countries Under A Low Rainfall (NY: The Macmillan Company...
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  • Widtsoe (February 24, 1874 – June 8, 1965) was the wife of John A. Widtsoe, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a prominent...
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    Teachings of Harold B. Lee, p. 541; See Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book., 1941) p. 135; 64-04,[clarification...
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    thereafter he served as a missionary for the church in Liverpool, England. His mission presidents were James E. Talmage and John A. Widtsoe. Kennedy attended...
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    of North America since the death of John A. Widtsoe in 1952. While in Slovakia on 12 May 2006, Uchtdorf offered a prayer dedicating the land "for the...
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    Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City: Signature Books, p. 305 (1993); John A. Widtsoe, G. Homer Durham (ed.), Evidences and Reconciliations, pp. 396–97 (1960);...
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    paragraph 9 "John W. Clawson". Utah Artists Project. J. Willard Marriott Library. Retrieved 16 April 2021. Gates, Susa Young Gates; Leah D. Widtsoe (1930)....
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  • the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. November 20: John A. Widtsoe dies. November 25: Ezra Taft Benson, a sitting LDS apostle, becomes United States Secretary...
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  • his letter and sent a copy of the Book of Mormon in Italian. He told Di Francesca that he would send his inquiry to John A. Widtsoe, the president of the...
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    approval of a non-abstinence fertility control method was publicly expressed occurred in a 1942 church magazine article in which apostle John A. Widtsoe mentioned...
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    David Orson Calder (June 18, 1823 – July 3, 1884) was a prominent early pioneer settler in Utah. A native of Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, he joined the...
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  • Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019. John A. Widtsoe (1960). Evidences and Reconciliations, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 256–58...
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    with the search for a new BYU president after World War II, and was one of the strongest supporters, along with John A. Widtsoe, of eventual appointee...
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    instruction provided through wards (local congregations). Clark G. Gilbert, a general authority seventy, has been the CES commissioner since August 1, 2021...
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    received permission from John A. Widtsoe, the overall president of LDS missions in Europe at the time, to Marry. He found a suitable Czech bride, Martha...
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    Melvin Joseph Ballard (February 9, 1873 – July 30, 1939) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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    James E. Talmage and John A. Widtsoe; the latter's admonitions to "Live mightily today, the greatest day of all time is today" made a lasting impression...
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    stated in a BBC interview that endowment ordinance vows to secrecy are "similar to a Masonic relationship." The LDS Church apostle John A. Widtsoe downplayed...
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