Zerubbabel Snow
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Zerubbabel Snow (March 29, 1809 – September 27, 1888) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a Mormon pioneer, and an Attorney General of the Territory of Utah.
Snow was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Snow was taught about Mormonism from missionaries Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson. He was baptized into the Church of Christ in 1832. On August 23, 1832, Snow and Amasa M. Lyman were ordained to the priesthood office of elder by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Frederick G. Williams, and the two of them immediately departed on a proselytizing mission.
In 1833, Snow returned to Vermont and married Susan Slater Lang. He remained in Vermont until 1834, when he went to Ohio to become a membere of Smith's Zion's Camp expedition to Missouri.
In 1835, Snow was ordained to the priesthood office of seventy and became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. Snow and his family migrated with the Latter Day Saints from Ohio, to Iowa, and finally to Utah Territory.
In 1852 Snow was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Virginia and Ohio. On February 19, 1869, Snow was elected as the Attorney General of the Territory of Utah. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
[edit] See also
- Erastus Snow : Zerubbabel's brother
[edit] References
- Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 691.
