Jacob Spori

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Jacob Spori was the first principal of the Bannock Stake Academy, an institution that would eventually become Brigham Young University–Idaho.

A native of Switzerland, Spori also served many missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including one to the Ottoman Empire where he baptized Mischa Markow. In 1886, he performed the first-ever Mormon baptism to be performed in Palestine.

Spori was a highly educated man who had degrees in "mathematics, arts and music, and metalurgy."[1]. He was a friend of Karl G. Maeser who instructed him on the desired set up for the new school at Rexburg, Idaho.

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  1. ^ Public Relations Office – BYU–Idaho

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