Thomas Bullock (Mormon)

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Thomas Bullock
Reporter and Member of the Council of Fifty[1]
December 25, 1846 (1846-12-25) – June 24, 1882 (1882-06-24)
End reasonReleased due to old[1]
Clerk in the
Church Historian's Office
c. 1843
Personal details
Born(1816-12-23)December 23, 1816
Leek, Staffordshire, England
DiedFebruary 10, 1885(1885-02-10) (aged 68)
Coalville, Utah Territory, United States
Resting placeSalt Lake City Cemetery
40°46′37.92″N 111°51′28.8″W / 40.7772000°N 111.858000°W / 40.7772000; -111.858000 (Salt Lake City Cemetery)

Thomas Bullock (December 23, 1816 – February 10, 1885) was a

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. Assistant Church Historian". The first "Assistant Church Historian" was Wilford Woodruff
    called in 1856, after Bullock left in 1854.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^
    Assistant Church Historian". The first "Assistant Church Historian" was Wilford Woodruff
    called in 1856, after Bullock left in 1854. See these references:

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