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Jedediah M. Grant (1816-1856)
Born at Windsor, New York, he participated in Zion's Camp when eighteen years old. In 1845, Jedediah was called to serve as a President of the Seventy. He served as the first Mayor of Salt Lake City. In 1854, at the age of thirty-eight, he was ordained an Apostle and set apart as Second Counselor to President Brigham Young. Although and ordained apostle, Jedediah never served in the Quorum of the Twelve. In 1856, President Young sent him to preach reform in settlements north of Salt Lake City, and challenged the Saints to signify that commitment through rebaptism. He died nine days after the birth of his son, Heber J. Grant.Click here to view books by Jedediah M. Grant |
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