Erastus Fairbanks Snow

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Erastus Fairbanks Snow

1818–1888

An early Latter-day Saint apostle and pioneer, he helped carry his church across the American West and into new settlements. His life combines missionary work, frontier leadership, and the making of Mormon communities in the 1800s.

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One year in Scandinavia : results of the gospel in Denmark and Sweden; sketches and observations on the country and people; remarkable events; late persecutions and present aspect of affairs

One year in Scandinavia : results of the gospel in Denmark and Sweden; sketches and observations on the country and people; remarkable events; late persecutions and present aspect of affairs

by Erastus Fairbanks Snow

About the author

Born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1818, he joined the Latter-day Saint movement as a teenager and quickly became an active missionary. Before he was twenty, he had already preached in several northeastern states, and in 1839 he moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he took on growing responsibility in the church.

In 1849, he was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held until his death in 1888. He was part of the pioneer generation that entered the Salt Lake Valley and later became especially associated with church colonization efforts in southern Utah and nearby regions.

Remembered as both a preacher and an organizer, he helped establish communities as well as congregations, linking his name with the practical work of settlement in the American West. For readers interested in nineteenth-century religious history, his story offers a close look at faith, migration, and leadership on the frontier.