Life of wilford woodruff
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Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff served as the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1889 and his death in 1898. A native of Connecticut, he was baptized in 1833.
He participated in the Camp of Israel expedition and served numerous missions.1 After being ordained an Apostle in 1839, he served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve for more than 50 years.
Life of wilford woodruff
His regular, detailed diaries remain one of the key sources on the early history of the Church.
Courtesy of the Church History Department
Woodruff married Phebe Whittemore Carter in 1837.
In the 1840s he accepted the practice of plural marriage taught by Joseph Smith, and between 1846 and 1877, he married at least seven other women. He was the father of 34 children.2
In 1877 Woodruff became the first person to serve as a temple president when the St. George Utah Temple was completed.
He served as the president of that temple until 1884. After John Taylor’s death in 1887, Woodruff