Helaman Pratt
Helaman Pratt | |
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Known for | Mexican LDS Ministry |
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Children | 21 |
Parent(s) | Parley P. Pratt Mary Wood |
Helaman Pratt (31 May 1846 – 26 November 1909) was an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the U.S. states of Nevada and Utah and later in Mexico.
Family
Helaman was the son of Parley P. Pratt and Glasgow-born wife Mary Wood, the father of missionary Rey Pratt, the grandfather of Michigan governor George W. Romney, and the great-grandfather of Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. He was born in a covered wagon during a one-hour stopover on the Mormon Trail near Mount Pisgah, Iowa.
Pratt first married Emeline Victoria Billingsly (1852–1910), in 1868. Next he married, as a plural wife,
Dora and Bertha were daughters of Carl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Wilcken (Eckhorst, Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 5 October 1831 – Salt Lake City, 9 April 1914) and Eliza Christina Carolina Reiche (Neustadt in Holstein, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 1 May 1830 – Salt Lake City, 13 August 1906). Eliza was the first of Wilcken's four wives.[1] Carl had first come to Utah as part of Johnston's Army but later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Church leader
In 1869, when the first LDS branch was organized in Overton, Nevada, Pratt served as branch president.[2]
From 1872 to 1873, he was president of the Glenwood Branch in Glenwood, Utah. He then was the head of the group which founded Prattville, Utah.[3]
Missionary in Mexico
Pratt was one of the first missionaries to Mexico, and in 1876 at
See also
References
- ^ http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html Ancestry of Mitt Romney
- ^ Jenson. Encyclopedic History. Article on Muddy Mission.
- ^ Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1937)
External links
- Bio at pratt-family.org
- Histories and records at pratt-family.org
- "Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage" by Todd Compton