Edwin D. Woolley
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Edwin Dilworth Woolley (June 28, 1807– October 12, 1881) was a Mormon pioneer, an early Latter-day Saint bishop in Salt Lake City, and a businessman in early Utah Territory who operated mills.
Woolley was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and raised in a Quaker family. He joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the 1830s and latter served as a missionary in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
In 1851, Woolley was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature. For many years Wooley was bishop of the 13th Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. He referred to a member of his ward, the young Heber J. Grant, as lazy, which has been likened to someone calling Abraham Lincoln dishonest.[1]
Woolley was the grandfather of J. Reuben Clark and Spencer W. Kimball, among other Latter-day Saint leaders.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Madsen, Truman G., Defender of the Faith: The B. H. Roberts Story, (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980) p. 67
[edit] References
- From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Wooley (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976)
