Erastus Fairbanks Snow - St. George, Utah
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BruceS
N 37° 06.476 W 113° 35.010
12S E 270434 N 4109969
Bust of early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in St. George, Utah
Waymark Code: WM53BT
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 11/04/2008
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Erastus Fairbanks Snow
Missionary, Founder of St. George,
President of the Cotton Mission
Erastus Snow was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in 1818. He entered
the Salt Lake Valley on July 21, 1847, in advance of the first company of Mormon
Pioneers. He was ordained an Apostle at the age of thirty. As a
missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, he crossed the
Great Plains seven times and published the first foreign translation of the Book
of Mormon in Denmark in 1850. Elder Snow presided over the Cotton Mission
from 1861 to 1888 and supervised the construction of the St. George Temple and
Tabernacle.
This monument is dedicated to Elder Snow's leadership and
the great sacrifice of the Cotton Mission Pioneers.
May 24, 1997