Lorenzo Snow
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| 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
| September 13, 1898 – October 10, 1901 | |
| Predecessor | Wilford Woodruff |
| Successor | Joseph F. Smith |
| President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | |
| April 7, 1889 – September 13, 1898 | |
| End reason | Became President of the Church |
| Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | |
| August 29, 1877 – September 13, 1898 | |
| End reason | Became President of the Church |
| Assistant Counselor in the First Presidency | |
| May 9, 1874 – August 29, 1877 | |
| End reason | Dissolution of First Presidency upon death of Brigham Young |
| Counselor in the First Presidency | |
| June 8, 1873 – May 9, 1874 | |
| End reason | Called as Assistant Counselor in the First Presidency |
| Quorum of the Twelve Apostles | |
| February 12, 1849 – June 8, 1873 | |
| End reason | Called as Counselor in the First Presidency |
| LDS Church Apostle | |
| February 12, 1849 – October 10, 1901 | |
| Reason | Reorganization of First Presidency; excommunication of Lyman Wight |
| Reorganization at end of term |
Hyrum M. Smith ordained |
| Personal details | |
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Lorenzo Snow April 3, 1814 Mantua, Ohio, United States |
| Died | October 10, 1901 (aged 87) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Resting place | Brigham City Cemetery 41°30′10″N 112°00′28″W / 41.5028°N 112.0078°W |
| Spouse(s) | Charlotte Squires Mary Adaline Goddard Sarah Ann Prichard Harriet Amelia Squires Eleanor Houtz Caroline Horton Mary Elizabeth Houtz Phoebe Amelia Woodruff Sarah Minnie Ephramina Jensen |
| Children | 42 |
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Lorenzo Snow (April 3, 1814 – October 10, 1901) was an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1898 to his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century and the first in the twentieth.
Snow was the fifth child and first son of Oliver Snow (September 18, 1775, Massachusetts – October 17, 1845, Illinois) and Rosetta L. Pettibone (October 22, 1778, Connecticut – October 12, 1846, Illinois), residents of Mantua Township, Ohio, who had left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Lorenzo had siblings Leonora Abigail Snow (1801–1872), Eliza R. Snow (1804–1887), Percy Amanda Snow (1808–1848), Melissa Snow (1810–1835), Lucius Augustus Snow (born 1819), and Samuel Pearce Snow (born 1821).
Despite the labor required on the farm, the Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. Snow received his final year of education at Oberlin College, which was originally founded by two Presbyterian ministers. Snow later made his living as a school teacher when not engaged in church service.
In 1831, Joseph Smith, the Latter Day Saint prophet, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the Snow farm. The Snow family was Baptist, but soon took a strong interest in the new religious movement. Snow recorded that he heard the Book of Mormon being read aloud in his home in Mantua and met Smith at Hiram in 1831. By 1835, Snow's mother and his older sister Eliza, had joined the Latter Day Saint church. Eliza soon moved to the church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio, and worked as a school teacher. She, in her biography of Snow, claims to have fostered his interest in Mormonism while he was at Oberlin. Eliza invited Snow to visit her and attend a school of Hebrew newly established by the church. During his visit there, in June 1836, Snow was baptized by John F. Boynton, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
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