Orson Ferguson Whitney

July 1, 1855–May 16, 1931

1 Born at Salt Lake City; son of Helen Mar Kimball and Horace Kimball Whitney. 2 Baptized, 1866. 3 Married Zina Beal Smoot, 1879. 4 Appointed bishop of the Salt Lake City Eighteenth Ward, 1878. 5 Appointed to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1906. 6 Died at Salt Lake City. 7 (See Document 4.4)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Orson Ferguson Whitney, Through Memory’s Halls: The Life Story of Orson F. Whitney (Independence, MO: Press of Zion’s Printing and Publishing Company, 1930), 21. “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 822/350 (1931), Orson Ferguson Whitney.
  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 822/350. Whitney, Through Memory’s Halls, 16, 21, 22.
  3. [3] Whitney, Through Memory’s Halls, 28.
  4. [4] Ibid., 115.
  5. [5] Ibid., 105.
  6. [6] Ibid., 262–263.
  7. [7] Utah death certificate, file no. 822/350. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Orson Ferguson Whitney KWZB-L94 .