Horace S. Eldredge

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Horace Sunderlin Eldredge (February 6, 1816 – September 6, 1888) was an early Mormon leader and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Eldredge was born in Brutus, New York, and married Sarah Gibbs in the Summer of 1836. Earlier that same year he was baptized. Weeks after purchasing a farm in Far West, Missouri, he was expelled along with the rest of the Mormons by the Extermination Order.[1]

In Utah Territory, Eldredge was appointed marshal of the Territory, assessor and collector of taxes and a brigadier-general of the militia. In Autumn 1854, he was appointed one of the Presidents of the Seventy. In 1856 and 1862 he served in the Utah Territorial Legislature. He was superintendent of ZCMI for several years before his death. He died in 1888 of lung trouble.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Horace S. (Sunderlin) Eldredge. Grampa Bill. Retrieved on 2008-04-06.
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