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]
[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] 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] 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] 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] Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183374, vol. A, pp. 709–710, 18 Mar. 1850, FSL.
[6] Tessie Clawson Groesbeck, comp., Biographical sketch of Hiram B. Clawson, no date, p. 2, CHL.
[7] Horace G. Whitney, The Drama in Utah: The Story of the Salt Lake Theatre (Deseret News, 1915), 4, 7–8.
[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] Twelfth East Ward, University West Stake, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 17 Sept. 1882; 22 May 1904, CHL.
[10] “The Deseret Hospital,” Woman’s Exponent (Salt Lake City), 15 Oct. 1884, 76.
[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.