11 Facts About Edward Stevenson

Edward Stevenson was a prominent Latter-day Saint missionary of the 19th century.

Edward Stevenson served as a general authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as one of the seven presidents of the Seventy.

Edward Stevenson's family moved to the United States when he was young.

Edward Stevenson later relocated with the main body of Latter Day Saints to Missouri, then Nauvoo, Illinois, and finally Salt Lake City, Utah Territory in 1847.

Edward Stevenson made six missionary journeys, for up to five years at a time.

Edward Stevenson is recorded as having traveled the most miles under his own expense of any missionary in the history of the LDS Church.

Edward Stevenson settled in Salt Lake City with the first group of Mormon pioneers in 1847, and spent the first five years there getting established, and traveling Utah with Brigham Young and other church authorities to help oversee the establishment of several new settlements, before leaving on one of his missions in 1852.

Edward Stevenson served as the co-leader of one of the Utah pioneer teams in 1855, and served as the leader of a second one in 1859.

Edward Stevenson died at his home in Salt Lake City on January 27,1897.

Edward Stevenson wrote and self-published a biography of Joseph Smith in 1893, entitled Reminiscences of Joseph, the Prophet.

One of the buildings at the LDS Church's Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, is named the Edward Stevenson Building, and his portrait hangs in its lobby.