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Erastus Fairbanks Snow
1818–1888
A determined early Latter-day Saint leader, missionary, and colonizer, he helped carry his church from its New England beginnings to the American West. His story reaches from Nauvoo and the first pioneer company to the founding of communities in southern Utah and beyond.
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About the author
Born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1818, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a teenager and quickly became known as an energetic missionary. In the church's early years he preached in the eastern United States and later in Europe, building a reputation for steady leadership during a time of constant movement and upheaval.
He was ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1849 and remained a member until his death in 1888. He also traveled west with the Latter-day Saint pioneers and is remembered as one of the first members of the vanguard company to enter the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
Much of his later life was spent helping establish settlements in the Intermountain West, especially in southern Utah, where he played a major role in the growth of St. George and nearby communities. That mix of preaching, organizing, and frontier settlement makes him a notable figure in nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint history.