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Hiram Bradley Clawson

7 November 1826—29 March 1912

Born 7 November 1826 in Utica, Oneida County, New York.1 Son of Zephaniah Clawson and Catherine Reese.2 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1840.3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, arriving September 1848.4 Married Ellen Curtis Spencer, 18 March 1850, in Salt Lake City.5 Business manager for Brigham Young.6 Comanaged the Salt Lake Theatre with John T. Caine, circa 1862.7 General superintendent of the Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution, 1869–1873, 1875.8 Served as bishop of the Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward, 1882–1904.9 President of the Deseret Hospital board, 1884.10 Died 29 March 1912 in Salt Lake City.11

Footnotes

  1. 1 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183374, vol. A, p. 709, 18 Mar. 1850, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL); Hyrum [Hiram] B. Clawson entry, Twelfth-Thirteenth Ward, Ensign Stake, Record of Members, 1908–1913, no. 361, in Twelfth-Thirteen Ward, part 1, segment 1, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL).

  2. 2 Hyrum [Hiram] B. Clawson entry, Twelfth-Thirteenth Ward, Ensign Stake, Record of Members, 1908–1913, no. 361, in Twelfth-Thirteen Ward, part 1, segment 1, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, CHL.

  3. 3 Hyrum [Hiram] B. Clawson entry, Twelfth-Thirteenth Ward, Ensign Stake, Record of Members, 1908–1913, no. 361, in Twelfth-Thirteen Ward, part 1, segment 1, Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, CHL.

  4. 4 First Hundred, Report, June 1848, Brigham Young’s 1848 Emigration Division, Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, CHL; Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah, vol. 1 (George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1892), 384.

  5. 5 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183374, vol. A, pp. 709–710, 18 Mar. 1850, FSL.

  6. 6 Tessie Clawson Groesbeck, comp., Biographical sketch of Hiram B. Clawson, no date, p. 2, CHL.

  7. 7 Horace G. Whitney, The Drama in Utah: The Story of the Salt Lake Theatre (Deseret News, 1915), 4, 7–8.

  8. 8 Martha Sonntag Bradley, ZCMI: America’s First Department Store (ZCMI, 1991), 23; Advertisement, Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 10 Mar. 1869, [2]; “Z[.] C. M. I.,” Ogden (UT) Junction, 3 May 1875, [2]; Groesbeck, Biographical sketch, pp. 3–4; Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah, vol. 4 (George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1904), 202.

  9. 9 Twelfth East Ward, University West Stake, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 17 Sept. 1882; 22 May 1904, CHL.

  10. 10 “The Deseret Hospital,” Woman’s Exponent (Salt Lake City), 15 Oct. 1884, 76.

  11. 11 Utah Death Certificates, 1904–1951, DGS 4121118, Salt Lake County, file no. 426, 29 Mar. 1912, familysearch.org; “H. B. Clawson, Pioneer, Dies at Age of 85,” Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 1912, 1–2.