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]
[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] 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] “Albert Carrington,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 20 Sept. 1889, [3].
[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] 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] Seventies Library and Institute Association Minutes, 24 Dec. 1844, CHL.
[7] Pioneer List, 13 Apr. 1847, Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, CHL.
[8] Historical Department, Journal History of the Church, 9 Oct. 1847, CHL.
[9] Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah (George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1892), 1:395.
[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] “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] 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.
[13] Carrington to Smith, 5 Jan. 1856, in “Affairs at the Capital,” 360; Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah, 1540–1886, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft 26 (History Company, 1889), 711n85; “Territorial Officers Elected at Last Session of the Legislature,” Deseret News, 2 Mar. 1864, 180.
[14] “Superintendent of Common Schools,” Deseret News, 7 Mar. 1860, 4; “County School Superintendents,” Deseret News, 18 July 1860, 156.
[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] “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] “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] 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] 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] 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.