Heber j grant biography
Grant, heber j (heber jeddy), 1856-1945!
Prophets
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Rachel Ridgeway Ivins and Jedediah Morgan Grant.
Father, Jedediah M.
Grant—Second Counselor to Brigham Young and first mayor of Salt Lake City—died.
Befriended by Alexander G. Hawes, an insurance agent and boarder at the Grant home who was not a member of the Church.
“He became, without any exception, the dearest and best friend that I had in all the world, aside from my own people.
Heber j grant biography
. . . He treated me almost like a father.”
Ordained as a seventy, then still a common priesthood office.
Hired at age 15 as a bookkeeper at the H.
R. Mann insurance company, fulfilling an early career goal.
Became a counselor in the first Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association formed in any ward.
Joined the close-knit Wasatch Literary Association, whose members included his future wife Emily Wells, future Apostles Orson F.
Whitney and Rudg