Thomas Bullock (Mormon)
Appearance
Thomas Bullock | |
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Reporter and Member of the Council of Fifty[1] | |
December 25, 1846 | – June 24, 1882|
End reason | Released due to old[1] |
Clerk in the Church Historian's Office | |
c. 1843 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Leek, Staffordshire, England | December 23, 1816
Died | February 10, 1885 Coalville, Utah Territory, United States | (aged 68)
Resting place | Salt Lake City Cemetery 40°46′37.92″N 111°51′28.8″W / 40.7772000°N 111.858000°W |
Thomas Bullock (December 23, 1816 – February 10, 1885) was a
Church Historian's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[4]
Biography
Bullock was born in Leek, Staffordshire, England. Bullock worked as an excise officer for the British government.
On November 20, 1841, Bullock and his wife Henrietta Rushton were baptized members of the
History of the Church
.
Like many early Latter Day Saints, Bullock practiced
William Clayton
, another prominent clerk in the church. In 1852, Bullock married his third wife, Betsy Prudence Howard.
In 1847, Bullock traveled with the initial
Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, clerk to the Utah Territorial Legislature, and was an occasional clerk to Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. From 1856 to 1858, Bullock returned to England as a missionary
for the church.
Bullock served in the church as a Seventy and in a variety of secretarial positions. He died in Coalville, Utah at the age of 68. Bullock was the father of 23 children, 13 of whom survived to adulthood.
Notes
- ^ a b Quinn, D. Michael (1980). "The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945" (PDF). BYU Studies. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University: 22–26. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 26, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- Assistant Church Historian". The first "Assistant Church Historian" was Wilford Woodruffcalled in 1856, after Bullock left in 1854.
- ^ Lund, Anthon H. (1917), "Remarks § Church Historians", Eighty-eighth Semi-annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Report of the Discourses, pp. 10–12
- ^ Assistant Church Historian". The first "Assistant Church Historian" was Wilford Woodruffcalled in 1856, after Bullock left in 1854. See these references:
- JSTOR 45227258.
- Lund, Anthon H. (1917-10-05). "Remarks". 88th Semi-annual General Conference. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
References
- Jerald F. Simon, Thomas Bullock as an Early Church Historian"[permanent dead link], 30 BYU Studies (Winter 1990) 71–88
External links
- Thomas Bullock letter, MSS SC 1820 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
- Thomas Bullock papers, Vault MSS 772 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University