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• Louisa Barnes Pratt
  ...n Warwick, Massachusetts. She attended school as a young girl and excelled in her studies. At the age of five, she was sent to a neighbor’s home on an ...ized a member of the Episcopal Church. She then went to live with a sister-in-law who taught her tailoring.
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• Jack Wheatley
  ...en months there, they moved to the Army Corps of Engineers District Office in Kansas City, Missouri, where he served for one year before he resigned. ...te University. He joined with Jacobsen Construction to build the [[Oakland California Temple]].
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• Nicholas G. Smith
  .../comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. Born in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]] Territory, Smith was the son of Church [[Apost .../ref> From 1902 to 1905 Smith served as a [[Missionary|Church missionary]] in the Netherlands. During part of the time he was on his mission he was presi
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• G. William Richards
  ...s]]: "From Homes of Saints Glad Songs Arise" (# 297) and "'Twas Witnessed in the Morning Sky" (#12). He was also a member of the Hymnbook Executive Comm ...ionary]] in the Eastern States Mission. He was, however, transfered to the California Mission to serve as organist of the Church's exhibit at the San Francisco W
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• Mary Ellen Edmunds
  ...s, California, on March 3, 1940. Her family moved to Cedar City, [[Utah]], in 1943. Her father was a family doctor and her mother was a nurse. She is the ...attended Brigham Young High School and graduated in 1958. She was a writer in high school, contributing to the Y’ld Cat student newspaper, the Wildcat
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• George Ottinger: Mormon Artist
  ...d and within three years he had circumnavigated the globe. He also went to California to prospect for gold. ...en studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He painted miniatures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for two years. His next move was to Kentucky where
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• Mary Lois Sharp Wheatley
  ...r’s degree in fine art from the University of Utah. She also studied art in New York City at the Art Students League of New York. She was a portrait ar ...Virginia, Missouri, and Utah, then settled in California, where they lived in Palo Alto and Carmel. Together they had six children.
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• SIX
  ...Knudsen brothers spent some time in Los Angeles and Las Vegas performing. In those locations, they went from being totally unknown to performing for som ...ity events. They premiered professionally on the ''Donny and Marie Show'' in 1978.
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• Giovanna Raccosta:Mormon Artist
  ...acclaimed portrait artist. She was born and raised in Italy. She now lives in the United States. ...ated with top honors and continued her studies at the Architecture College in Italy.
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• Michael Flynn
  ...lara Arena Theater in California and later founded Starlite Summer Theater in Utah. ...|missionaries]] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in the Netherlands. He had the role of the mission president.
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• Wendell B. Mendenhall
  ...He was also the building supervisor for the [[Oakland California Temple]] in the 1960s. ...all was born on September 26, 1907, in Mapleton, Utah. He served a mission in New Zealand from 1927 to 1930.
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• Matthew Cowley, Mormon Apostle
  ..., Idaho, to [[Matthias F. Cowley]] and Abbie Hyde Cowley. After his birth, in the same year, Cowley's father was called to the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apo ...e]] assisted by Wiremu Duncan and Stuart Meha. These translations appeared in 1919.
  4 KB (620 words) - 12:46, 31 March 2023
• Joseph W. McMurrin
  ...er 5, 1897, until his death on October 24, 1932. He also presided over the California Mission of the Church from 1919 until his death. ...n was born in Tooele, Utah Territory, on September 5, 1858, and was reared in Salt Lake City. He learned the stone-cutting trade and worked as a stone cu
  4 KB (583 words) - 20:57, 14 August 2023
• Clate W. Mask Jr.
  ...olonies in Mexico]]. His maternal grandmother, Minnie Spencer, had settled in the colonies. His father was not a member of the Church while Mask was youn ...helped establish [[Institute]] classes in Spanish in Arizona and Southern California.
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• Charles R. Smart
  ..., and was raised on sheep ranches in Wyoming and California. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he served a full-time mission for [http: ...ical residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a fellowship in surgical oncology at UCLA Medical Center where he became a staff member.
  2 KB (311 words) - 21:41, 20 March 2023
• Gale Sears: Mormon Author
  ...torical Fiction; ''Upon the Mountains'' was a finalist for a Whitney Award in Best Novel of the Year and Best Historical Fiction. ''The Silence of God'' ...e Sister Preachers'', which is based on the true story of the first sister missionaries—[[Amanda Inez Knight]] and [[Lucy Jane "Jennie" Brimhall]]—for [http://
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• Visitors' Centers
  ...s, audiovisual presentations and interactive kiosks. There are also Church missionaries available at each center to answer questions. Visitors can spend as much or ...Hawaii Temple|Laie, Hawaii]]; [[Los Angeles California Temple|Los Angeles, California]]; [[London England Temple|London, England]]; [[Mexico City Mexico Temple|M
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• Ed J. Pinegar
  ...red dentist who also spent much of his life teaching, writing, and leading in [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] ...vo. After one year, he was asked to put his practice to serve as a captain in the United States Army from 1962 to 1964.
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• Jim Engebretsen
  ...ter-day Saints] from 1998 to 2001. During this time he encountered several missionaries who had investigators turn against the Church because of falsehoods they ha ...sors, Divvypay, Canary Speech, Emmersion Learning and XIO Group, a PE fund in London.
  2 KB (325 words) - 14:49, 29 July 2023
• Hartman Rector Jr.
  ...1968, and served there until October 3, 1975, when he was called to serve in the [[Presidency of the Seventy]]. On October 1, 1976, the First Quorum of ...weeks, returned to San Diego, then was sent on a ship to Japan. He served in the Navy for twenty-six years.
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