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Albert Carrington

8 January 1813—19 September 1889

Emmeline B. Wells

Born 8 January 1813 at Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont.1 Son of Daniel V. Carrington and Isabella Bowman.2 Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1833.3 Married Rhoda Maria Woods, 6 December 1838, in Iowa County, Wisconsin Territory.4 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 13 July 1841.5 Elected as trustee of the Seventies Library and Institute Association, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 24 December 1844.6 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, 1847.7 Appointed to a committee to draft laws for the government of the Latter-day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley, 9 October 1847.8 Elected as accessor and collector for the provisional state of Deseret, 12 March 1849.9 Served in the Utah territorial legislature, 1852–1869, 1876, 1878, and 1880.10 Editor of the Deseret News, 1854–1859 and 1863–1867.11 Elected as the attorney general for Utah Territory, 2 January 1856.12 Appointed as chancellor of the University of Deseret, 1856–1857, 1861, and 1864.13 Appointed as superintendent of common schools for Utah Territory, 1860.14 Presided over the European Mission, 1868–1870, 1871–1873, 1875–1877, and 1880–1882.15 Ordained as an apostle, 3 July 1870.16 Served as church historian, 1870–1874, and as president of the Perpetual Emigration Fund, 1874.17 Excommunicated 6 November 1885.18 Rebaptized 1 November 1887.19 Died 19 September 1889 in Salt Lake City.20

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

 

Born 8 January 1813 at Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont.21 Son of Daniel V. Carrington and Isabella Bowman.22 Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1833.23 Married Rhoda Maria Woods, 6 December 1838, in Iowa County, Wisconsin Territory.24 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 13 July 1841.25 Elected as trustee of the Seventies Library and Institute Association, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 24 December 1844.26 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, 1847.27 Appointed to a committee to draft laws for the government of the Latter-day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley, 9 October 1847.28 Elected as accessor and collector for the provisional state of Deseret, 12 March 1849.29 Served in the Utah territorial legislature, 1852–1869, 1876, 1878, and 1880.30 Editor of the Deseret News, 1854–1859 and 1863–1867.31 Elected as the attorney general for Utah Territory, 2 January 1856.32 Appointed as chancellor of the University of Deseret, 1856–1857, 1861, and 1864.33 Appointed as superintendent of common schools for Utah Territory, 1860.34 Presided over the European Mission, 1868–1870, 1871–1873, 1875–1877, and 1880–1882.35 Ordained as an apostle, 3 July 1870.36 Served as church historian, 1870–1874, and as president of the Perpetual Emigration Fund, 1874.37 Excommunicated 6 November 1885.38 Rebaptized 1 November 1887.39 Died 19 September 1889 in Salt Lake City.40

Footnotes

  1. 1 Albert Carrington entry, no. 2249, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, bk. A, p. 53, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 Dec. 1845–8 Feb. 1846, microfilm 1033997, p. 10, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).

  2. 2 Albert Carrington entry, no. 2249, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, bk. A, 53, CHL; Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847–1976, DGS 7420261, Record of the Dead, 1888–1896, p. 32, familysearch.org.

  3. 3 “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 20 Sept. 1889, [3].

  4. 4 “Albert Carrington,” 6 Dec. 1838, no. 1035, in Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Marriage Records Pre-1907, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, WI, ancestry.com.

  5. 5 Albert Carrington entry, no. 2249, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, bk. A, 53, CHL; Julia R. Short, “Biography of William O. Clark,” Journal of History 6, no. 2 (Apr. 1913): 139–140.

  6. 6 Seventies Library and Institute Association Minutes, 24 Dec. 1844, CHL.

  7. 7 Pioneer List, 13 Apr. 1847, Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, CHL.

  8. 8 Historical Department, Journal History of the Church, 9 Oct. 1847, CHL.

  9. 9 Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah (George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1892), 1:395.

  10. 10 “Albert Carrington,” Territory of Utah Legislative Assembly Rosters, 1851–1894, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service, archives.utah.gov; Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Twenty-Fourth Session. For the Year 1880 (Deseret News Steam Printing, 1880), 52–53.

  11. 11 “To the Subscribers of the News,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 8 June 1854, 58; “To Our Readers,” Deseret News, 9 Mar. 1859, 4; “To the Readers and Patrons of the Deseret News,” Deseret News, 23 Sept. 1863, 72; “To All Concerned,” Deseret News, 20 Nov. 1867, 324; “Carrington, Albert,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (Andrew Jenson History, 1901), 127.

  12. 12 Albert Carrington to Elias Smith, 5 Jan. 1856, in “Affairs at the Capital,” Deseret News, 16 Jan. 1856, 360; “Directory of Utah,” Daily Union Vedette (Salt Lake City), 2 Nov. 1867, 1.

  14. 14 “Superintendent of Common Schools,” Deseret News, 7 Mar. 1860, 4; “County School Superintendents,” Deseret News, 18 July 1860, 156.

  15. 15 “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News, 20 Sept. 1889, [3]; “Valedictory,” Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (Liverpool, England), 19 Sept. 1868, 30:601–602.

  16. 16 “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News, 20 Sept. 1889, [3]; Historical Department, Journal History of the Church, 3 July 1870; Andrew Jenson, comp., Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2nd ed. (Deseret News, 1914), ix.

  17. 17 “Fortieth Semi-Annual Conference,” Salt Lake Daily Herald, 9 Oct. 1870, 1; “Immigrants,” Salt Lake Daily Herald, 16 Sept. 1874, [3]; Jenson, Church Chronology, xx.

  18. 18 Albert Carrington, Diary, 6 Nov. 1885, Albert Carrington, Diaries and Notebooks, 1848–1886, CHL; Wilford Woodruff, Journal, 6 Nov. 1885, Wilford Woodruff Journals and Papers, 1828–1898, CHL; Jenson, Church Chronology, 125; “Excommunicated,” Deseret Evening News, 10 Nov. 1885, [2].

  19. 19 Gary James Bergera, “Transgression in the LDS Community: The Cases of Albert Carrington, Richard R. Lyman, and Joseph F. Smith, Part 1,” Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 3 (2001): 159.

  20. 20 Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, DGS 7420261, Record of the Dead, 1888–1896, p. 32, familysearch.org; “Died,” Salt Lake Herald, 20 Sept. 1889, 8.

  21. 21 Albert Carrington entry, no. 2249, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, bk. A, p. 53, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 Dec. 1845–8 Feb. 1846, microfilm 1033997, p. 10, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).

  22. 22 Albert Carrington entry, no. 2249, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, bk. A, 53, CHL; Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847–1976, DGS 7420261, Record of the Dead, 1888–1896, p. 32, familysearch.org.

  23. 23 “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 20 Sept. 1889, [3].

  24. 24 “Albert Carrington,” 6 Dec. 1838, no. 1035, in Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Marriage Records Pre-1907, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, WI, ancestry.com.

  25. 25 Albert Carrington entry, no. 2249, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, bk. A, 53, CHL; Julia R. Short, “Biography of William O. Clark,” Journal of History 6, no. 2 (Apr. 1913): 139–140.

  26. 26 Seventies Library and Institute Association Minutes, 24 Dec. 1844, CHL.

  27. 27 Pioneer List, 13 Apr. 1847, Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, CHL.

  28. 28 Historical Department, Journal History of the Church, 9 Oct. 1847, CHL.

  29. 29 Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah (George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1892), 1:395.

  30. 30 “Albert Carrington,” Territory of Utah Legislative Assembly Rosters, 1851–1894, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service, archives.utah.gov; Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Twenty-Fourth Session. For the Year 1880 (Deseret News Steam Printing, 1880), 52–53.

  31. 31 “To the Subscribers of the News,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 8 June 1854, 58; “To Our Readers,” Deseret News, 9 Mar. 1859, 4; “To the Readers and Patrons of the Deseret News,” Deseret News, 23 Sept. 1863, 72; “To All Concerned,” Deseret News, 20 Nov. 1867, 324; “Carrington, Albert,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (Andrew Jenson History, 1901), 127.

  32. 32 Albert Carrington to Elias Smith, 5 Jan. 1856, in “Affairs at the Capital,” Deseret News, 16 Jan. 1856, 360; “Directory of Utah,” Daily Union Vedette (Salt Lake City), 2 Nov. 1867, 1.

  34. 34 “Superintendent of Common Schools,” Deseret News, 7 Mar. 1860, 4; “County School Superintendents,” Deseret News, 18 July 1860, 156.

  35. 35 “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News, 20 Sept. 1889, [3]; “Valedictory,” Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (Liverpool, England), 19 Sept. 1868, 30:601–602.

  36. 36 “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News, 20 Sept. 1889, [3]; Historical Department, Journal History of the Church, 3 July 1870; Andrew Jenson, comp., Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2nd ed. (Deseret News, 1914), ix.

  37. 37 “Fortieth Semi-Annual Conference,” Salt Lake Daily Herald, 9 Oct. 1870, 1; “Immigrants,” Salt Lake Daily Herald, 16 Sept. 1874, [3]; Jenson, Church Chronology, xx.

  38. 38 Albert Carrington, Diary, 6 Nov. 1885, Albert Carrington, Diaries and Notebooks, 1848–1886, CHL; Wilford Woodruff, Journal, 6 Nov. 1885, Wilford Woodruff Journals and Papers, 1828–1898, CHL; Jenson, Church Chronology, 125; “Excommunicated,” Deseret Evening News, 10 Nov. 1885, [2].

  39. 39 Gary James Bergera, “Transgression in the LDS Community: The Cases of Albert Carrington, Richard R. Lyman, and Joseph F. Smith, Part 1,” Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 3 (2001): 159.

  40. 40 Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, DGS 7420261, Record of the Dead, 1888–1896, p. 32, familysearch.org; “Died,” Salt Lake Herald, 20 Sept. 1889, 8.