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Stewart, William Thomas, 1853-1935


  • [William Thomas Stewart (1853-1935) was one of the first Mormon missionaries called to serve in New Zealand, and the first Mormon missionary to learn Maori.]

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      • found: History of William Thomas Stewart, 1972:p. 17 (William Thomas Stewart; b. Oct. 18, 1853, Dry Creek, Utah) p. 48a (d. 22 Aug. 1935)
      • found: William Thomas Stewart, [2014?]:t.p. (William Thomas Stewart; missions to New Zealand April 1883 to May 1886, July 1891 to December 1893) page 1 (William Thomas Stewart; born October 18, 1853 in an area south of Salt Lake City, Utah where Drycreek meets the Jordan River; first son of Levi Stewart and Margery Wilkerson; early life spent on family farm in Cottonwood, nine miles south of Salt Lake City; 1870 family moved to settle Kanab, Utah) page 2 (William Thomas Stewart became the prosecuting attorney for Kane County, County Assessor, member of the State House of Representative, Justice of the Peace, District Judge)
      • found: Wikipedia, website viewed 22 April 2014(William Thomas Stewart; born October 18, 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory; moved to Kanab, Utah in 1870; married Rachel Tamar Hamblin in 1873; polygamist; served in Utah Territorial Legislature in 1887 and 1889; 1889 elected mayor of Kanab; 1901 settle Alamo, Nevada; died in Alamo in 1935)
      • found: William Thomas Stewart autobiography and diary, 1883(William Thomas Stewart was born October 18, 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Levi Stewart and Margery Wilkerson Stewart; in 1870, William's father, Levi, was called by Mormon Church President Brigham Young to relocate to Kanab, Utah; soon thereafter, William, with members of his family, moved to Kanab, Utah; William with business partners Lawrence Mariger and David Udall, established a merchantile company in Kanab; they later established a co-operative store; in 1876, William was asked to serve a mission to the Zuni; in addition, he also worked with the Navajo Councils; in 1878 he was asked to serve as a recorder in the St. George Temple, and in 1880 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Kane County; an office he was re-elected to in 1887; in January 1883, William was asked to serve a Mormon mission to New Zealand, and in July of 1883, he was asked to preside over the Australasian Mission; he served for three years during which time he learned the Maori language; he returned home in 1886; in 1891 he was asked to return to New Zealand to serve as Mission President; he was formally released from his second mission in 1893; soon after his return, he held public office in Kanab, but soon relocated his family to the Pahranagat Valley in Lincoln County, Nevada, where he ranched and farmed; approximately ten years later the family relocated to Alamo, Nevada, where William established first a branch and later a ward of the Church; in Alamo, William was elected Justice of the Peace in 1909, a position he held until 1932; in 1922 he and his wife Mary Ann were asked to serve as Mormon temple workers in the St. George Temple; William Thomas Stewart died August 19, 1935 in Alamo, Nevada)

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      • [William Thomas Stewart (1853-1935) was one of the first Mormon missionaries called to serve in New Zealand, and the first Mormon missionary to learn Maori.]

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