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    Heber Jeddy Grant (November 22, 1856 – May 14, 1945) was an American religious leader who served as the seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ...
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    named after either Heber J. Grant or Heber C. Kimball, both prominent members of the LDS church. Overgaard, adjoining Heber, was settled ca. 1936 and was...
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  • member of the original quorum, dies. 16 October 1882 George Teasdale and Heber J. Grant ordained. 17 November 1883 Charles C. Rich dies. 9 April 1884 John W...
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    student assessment center located in the Heber J. Grant Building at Brigham Young University. The Heber J. Grant Building was originally built as the BYU...
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    called to serve second counselor in the church's First Presidency to Heber J. Grant. Grant held the position in the First Presidency vacant for over a year...
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    build the temple was announced on October 1, 1919, by church president Heber J. Grant, during the church's general conference. Located in the city of Mesa...
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    second counselor to Heber J. Grant in the First Presidency. He served in that capacity until Grant's death in May 1945, and when Grant was succeeded by George...
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    July 12, 2016. Heber J. Grant (2002). "The Life and Ministry of Heber J. Grant". Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant. The Church of...
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    Grant is the father of Heber J. Grant, who later served as President of the Church. Jedediah M. Grant was born February 21, 1816, to Joshua Grant and...
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    a school in Oxford, Idaho. In September 1920, then church president Heber J. Grant called Lee on a mission to the western states, with headquarters in...
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    the endowment and celestial marriage (sealing). LDS Church presidents Heber J. Grant and David O. McKay are known to have privately stated that the restriction...
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    Apostles and served in the position for two years. With the death of Heber J. Grant, Smith became president of the church on May 21, 1945. When World War...
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  • Pioneers organization is founded. September 1: Japan is dedicated by Heber J. Grant for missionary proselyting. October 10: Lorenzo Snow dies. October 17:...
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    Kimball received a telephone call from J. Reuben Clark, the first counselor to church president Heber J. Grant, notifying him that he had been called...
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    temple site was dedicated by Joseph F. Smith on June 1, 1915, with Heber J. Grant dedicating the completed structure on November 27, 1919. Spencer W....
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    place during the presidency of Heber J. Grant, a long-time enthusiastic promoter of the Word of Wisdom. Although Grant did not emphasize restricting meat...
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    died. After the death of Joseph F. Smith in 1918, new church president Heber J. Grant retained Lund as first counselor in the First Presidency. At that time...
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    at night were begun. In 1937, Richards was asked by church president Heber J. Grant to assume the duties that would normally be carried out by the church's...
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    October 1882, by church president John Taylor. Future church president, Heber J. Grant, was ordained an apostle on the same date. Teasdale immediately served...
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  • payments and secured more loans. In addition, George Q. Cannon and Heber J. Grant personally funded the enterprise. Joseph F. Smith, president of the...
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  • and included an 8:00 p.m. dedication address by LDS Church president Heber J. Grant, followed by a speech by Salt Lake City Mayor C. Clarence Nelson. In...
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    pleurisy in Salt Lake City on November 19, 1918, and was succeeded by Heber J. Grant. Due to the widespread influenza pandemic of 1918–20, a graveside service...
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    Presidency, serving as a counselor to church presidents Joseph F. Smith and Heber J. Grant from 1911 until his death. Penrose was born in Camberwell London, England...
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  • a mission in Alabama, having been set apart by Brigham Young, Jr., Heber J. Grant, and John W. Taylor. On Thanksgiving Day 1899, in the company of four...
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    Arizona: Beaver Dam Brigham City (ghost town) Central Eagar Fredonia Gilbert Heber-Overgaard Joseph City Layton (absorbed by Safford) Lee's Ferry Lehi (annexed...
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  • but not all, served in the First Presidency of the LDS Church. In addition, J. Reuben Clark was only a member of the Quorum of the Twelve for one week in...
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    the Navajo and Hopi peoples with many other church leaders, including Heber J. Grant. In 1883, Young convinced the residents of Jonesville, Arizona, to rename...
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    Angeles Temple was announced on March 23, 1937, by church president Heber J. Grant, when the church purchased 24.23 acres (98,000 m2) from the Harold Lloyd...
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    Native American reservations in Montana. When new church president Heber J. Grant was pondering whom to call as an apostle to replace the vacancy caused...
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    from the LDS Church in January 1924 for alleging that church president Heber J. Grant and apostle James E. Talmage had taken plural wives "in the recent past...
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