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Counselor in the Firsr Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the age of fifty-eight, he became the fifth Presiding Bishop of the Church. He held that position for the next seventeen years. During his time The Church did away with tithing scrip, and he placed the church on a strict cash payment basis. He also was influential in getting the church to build Hotel Utah. Some seventeen years later, President Heber J. Grant called him to be his Second Counselor, which position he held until his death in 1931. Of interest is that he was not ordained an Apostle when called into the First Presidency, serving as a High Priest. |
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