57 Facts About Lorenzo Snow

Lorenzo Snow was an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 until his death.

Lorenzo Snow received his final year of education at Oberlin College, which was founded by two Presbyterian ministers.

Lorenzo Snow later made his living as a school teacher when not engaged in church service.

The Lorenzo Snow family was Baptist, but soon took a strong interest in the new religious movement.

Lorenzo Snow recorded that he heard the Book of Mormon being read aloud in his home in Mantua and met Smith at Hiram in 1831.

Eliza invited Lorenzo Snow to visit her and attend a school of Hebrew newly established by the church.

When he returned to Kirtland in 1838, Lorenzo Snow found Smith's followers in turmoil over the failure of the Kirtland Safety Society.

Lorenzo Snow became seriously ill with a fever, and was nursed for several weeks by his sister, Eliza.

Lorenzo Snow served there through February 1839, when he learned that the Latter Day Saints had been expelled from their settlements in Missouri.

Lorenzo Snow traveled home by way of his former mission area in Ohio.

Lorenzo Snow was again taken ill and was cared for by church members.

Lorenzo Snow remained in Ohio, preaching and working with church members until the fall of 1839.

Lorenzo Snow sent money to his family, which had by then settled in Nauvoo, Illinois; he joined them in May 1840.

Shortly after he arrived in Nauvoo, Lorenzo Snow was called to serve as a missionary in England.

Lorenzo Snow worked briefly in the Manchester area, and had success in Birmingham, where he baptized people in Greet's Green and organized a branch in Wolverhampton.

Lorenzo Snow was assigned to preside over church members in London.

Lorenzo Snow was released from his mission by Pratt, who by then was president of an expanding European Mission.

Lorenzo Snow arrived home on April 12,1843, and was accompanied by a shipload of 250 British converts.

Lorenzo Snow was working in Cincinnati when he learned of the death of the Smiths.

Lorenzo Snow closed his Ohio mission and promptly returned to Nauvoo.

In 1845, Lorenzo Snow was involved in work in the Nauvoo Temple.

Three Lorenzo Snow children were born at the Mormon refugee settlement, but none of them survived.

Lorenzo Snow was called to preside over the church organization in Mt.

The Lorenzo Snow family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1848.

In 1849, Snow was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the same day as Franklin D Richards, Erastus Snow, and Charles C Rich.

Shortly after his call to the Twelve, Lorenzo Snow left on a mission to Italy and French-speaking Switzerland.

Lorenzo Snow later sent missionaries under his direction to India.

Lorenzo Snow was directly involved in missionary work in Italy and Switzerland, and preached in Malta.

Lorenzo Snow had planned to visit India, but various circumstances prevented this journey.

Lorenzo Snow began his mission in Italy among the Waldensians, an ancient sect of Christians who inhabited the Piedmont Valleys in the Alps.

In 1850, Lorenzo Snow wrote a pamphlet entitled "The Voice of Joseph" to advance missionary work in the Italian mission.

Lorenzo Snow was unable to find anyone in Italy to translate it so sent it to Orson Pratt, then president of the British Mission, who found a translator in Paris.

In 1851, Lorenzo Snow published a pamphlet entitled "The Italian Mission" about the church's missionary efforts in Italy.

In January 1851, Lorenzo Snow went to England and found a person there whom he hired to translate the Book of Mormon into Italian.

On his return to Utah Territory, Lorenzo Snow founded a society called the Polysophical Society to conduct study into the various aspects of human knowledge.

Lorenzo Snow encouraged church members of all ages to join and some view this organization as a predecessor of the church's Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association.

In 1853, under the direction of church president Brigham Young, Lorenzo Snow brought additional settlers to Brigham City, Utah.

Lorenzo Snow was a key backer of the Brigham City Cooperative, which was the inspiration for ZCMI and other cooperatives.

From this point and for several more years, Lorenzo Snow was both the community and ecclesiastical leader over Brigham City.

In 1864, Snow was sent on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, with Ezra T Benson and Joseph F Smith.

In 1871 Snow went on a trip to the Holy Land with George A Smith and several other church leaders.

Lorenzo Snow tacitly helped engineer the 1901 election of his friend, Thomas Kearns, a wealthy Utah Catholic, to the United States Senate.

Lorenzo Snow was first elected to the Utah Territorial Council, the upper house of the territorial legislature, in 1855.

In 1863, Weber and Box Elder Counties were broken off from Cache County and made a single-representative district, with Lorenzo Snow remaining as their lone council member.

Lorenzo Snow held this position through the end of 1881.

In 1882, Snow remained a member of the council but was succeeded as its president by Joseph F Smith.

In 1884, Snow was succeeded as a member of the council by Franklin S Richards.

In 1888, Snow went to Rexburg, Idaho, where he told the leaders of the stake that Karl G Maeser had been appointed Commissioner of Church Education and recommended that they form a stake academy.

Lorenzo Snow became president of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1889.

Lorenzo Snow was the subject of a United States Supreme Court case regarding polygamy prosecutions under the Edmunds Act.

In late 1885, Lorenzo Snow was indicted by a federal grand jury for three counts of unlawful cohabitation.

The jury delivered one indictment for each of these years, and Lorenzo Snow was convicted on each count.

Lorenzo Snow approached this problem first by issuing short term bonds with a total value of one million dollars.

In 1899, Lorenzo Snow gave an address at the tabernacle in St George, imploring the Latter-day Saints to pay tithes of corn, money, or whatever they had.

Under the then-existing rules of presidential succession in the church, John Willard Young would have become church president when Lorenzo Snow died, as Lorenzo Snow was the only living person who had been ordained an apostle prior to Young.

Lorenzo Snow was 85 years old and in poor health, so it appeared to many that Young would be the next president of the church.

The role of Snow was played by Francis L Urry in the LDS Church-made film The Windows of Heaven.