Heber Jeddy Grant

1856 - 1945  (88 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 33 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Heber Jeddy Grant
  Birth	22 Nov 1856	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  Initiatory (LDS)	17 Aug 1874	EHOUS
  FamilySearch ID	KWCK-4TL
  Death	14 May 1945	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Burial	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Person ID	I88090	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Jedediah Morgan Grant,   b. 21 Feb 1816, Windsor, Broome, New York, United States bur. 4 Dec 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age ~ 40 years)
  Mother	Rachel Ridgeway Ivins,   b. 9 Mar 1821, Hornerstown, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States d. 27 Jun 1909 (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	29 Nov 1855	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F19143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lucy Stringham,   b. 29 Apr 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 3 Jan 1893, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	1 Nov 1877	St. George, Washington, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Susan Rachel Grant,   b. 30 Aug 1878, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 10 Aug 1969 (Age 90 years)   2. Lucy Grant,   b. 22 Oct 1880, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 27 May 1966, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 85 years) + 3. Florence Grant,   b. 7 Feb 1883, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 6 Mar 1977, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 94 years)   4. Edith Grant,   b. 2 Apr 1885, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 20 Aug 1947, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 62 years) + 5. Anna Grant,   b. 28 Dec 1886, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 6 Apr 1975, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 88 years)   6. Heber Stringham Grant,   b. 9 Dec 1888, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 27 Feb 1896 (Age 7 years)
  Family ID	F29699	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Hulda Augusta Winters,   b. 7 Jul 1856, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States d. 1 Jun 1951, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	26 May 1884	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	+ 1. Mary Grant,   b. 6 Feb 1889, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States d. 17 Dec 1955, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F29700	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Emily Harris Wells,   b. 22 Apr 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 25 May 1908, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1884	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Martha Deseret Grant,   b. 21 Apr 1886, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 18 Sep 1970 (Age 84 years)   2. Grace Grant,   b. 21 Dec 1889, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 24 Jan 1973 (Age 83 years)   3. Daniel Wells Grant,   b. 21 Nov 1891, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 10 Mar 1895 (Age 3 years)   4. Emily Grant,   b. 5 Jun 1896, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 31 Jul 1929, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 33 years)   5. Frances Marion Grant,   b. 23 Sep 1899, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 17 Nov 1995, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 96 years)
  Family ID	F29701	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 22 Nov 1856 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 17 Aug 1874 - EHOUS Marriage - 1 Nov 1877 - St. George, Washington, Utah, United States Marriage - 26 May 1884 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Marriage - 27 May 1884 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death - 14 May 1945 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Burial - - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  LDS Prophet Heber J. Grant - 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  
  

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  7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was an American religious leader who served as the seventh presiden t o f The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Gran t wor ked as a bookkeeper and a cashier, then was called to be an LDS apo stle o n October 16, 1882, at age 25. After the death of Joseph F. Smit h in lat e 1918, Grant served as LDS church president until his death. The first president born after the exodus to Utah, Grant was also the la s t LDS Church president to have practiced plural marriage. He had thre e wi ves, though by the time he became church president in 1918 only hi s secon d wife, Augusta Winters, was still living. In business, Grant helped develop the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lak e C ity. In 1884, he served a term as a representative to the Utah Territ oria l Legislature. Grant succeeded Joseph F. Smith as church president in November 1918 . H e was not sustained in the position by the general church membership , how ever, until June 1919 because of the influenza pandemic of 1918, wh ich fo rced a delay of the church's traditional springtime general confer ence. Grant upon becoming church president (late 1918 or early 1919) During his tenure as church president, Grant enforced the 1890 Manifes t o outlawing plural marriage and gave guidance as the church's social st ru cture evolved away from its early days of plural marriage. In 1927, h e au thorized the implementation of the church's "Good Neighbor" policy , whic h was intended to reduce antagonism between Latter-day Saints an d the U S government. Grant dedicated the first temples outside of Utah s ince Kir tland. The first was the Hawaii Temple, followed by the Albert a Temple, t he first outside the United States, and the Arizona Temple. T he church al so began the Idaho Falls Temple, which was not completed unt il after hi s death. Also under Grant, the first stakes outside the Intermountain West were o r ganized. The first stake in Los Angeles was organized in the 1920s. Gra n t still operated on old methods, such as personally asking LeGrand Rich ar ds to move to California with the intention of calling him as a stak e pre sident there. He also personally negotiated the purchase of the lan d on w hich the Los Angeles Temple would be built. In the 1930s, stakes were organized in New York and Chicago and in the 1 9 40s in Portland, Oregon, and Washington, DC. Grant presided at the dedi ca tion of an LDS chapel in Washington, DC, in 1933, which was seen to ma r k a new phase of nationwide expansion in the church. In 1935, Grant excommunicated members of the church in Short Creek, Ariz o na, who refused to sign the loyalty pledge to the church that includ e d a renunciation of plural marriage. That signaled the formal beginnin g o f the Mormon fundamentalist movement, and some of the excommunicate d memb ers went on to found the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ o f Latte r Day Saints. One of Grant's greatest legacies as president is the church's welfare pr o gram, which he instituted in 1936: "our primary purpose was to set up , in sofar as it might be possible, a system under which the curse of idl enes s would be done away with, the evils of a dole abolished, and indepe ndenc e, industry, thrift and self-respect be once more established among st ou r people. The aim of the Church is to help the people help themselv es." G rant also placed strong emphasis on the importance of sacrament me eting a ttendance and oversaw expansion of the seminary program and the c reatio n of the institute of religion. His administration also emphasized the practice of the LDS health code k n own as the Word of Wisdom. During the early 1900s, general authoritie s di ffered in their observance of the proscription against beer, wine, t obacc o, coffee and tea, but among the apostles, Grant was one of the mos t voca l in opposing such substances. In 1921, Grant's administration mad e adher ence to the health code compulsory for advancement in the priesth ood or f or entrance to temples. Grant also spoke out in favor of Utah' s Prohibiti on movement, which occurred around the same time. Despite being a Democrat, Grant was opposed to the election of U.S. Pres i dent Franklin Roosevelt and wrote a front-page editorial for the Deser e t News urging church members not to vote for him during the 1936 electi on . Grant shared the view of J. Reuben Clark and David O. McKay that th e Ne w Deal was socialism, which they all despised. Roosevelt greatly ali enate d Grant also for opposing Prohibition, another subject. Roosevelt still won Utah in each of his four presidential elections. Gra n t regarded that as "one of the most serious conditions that has confron te d me since I became President of the Church." Later, when Utah voter s agr eed by plebiscite to become the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-fir st Ame ndment to the United States Constitution, thus completing the proc ess o f ratification and repealing prohibition, Grant was devastated. I n a gene ral conference, he told the Latter-day Saints, "I have never fel t so humi liated in my life over anything as that the State of Utah vote d for the r epeal of Prohibition." Under Grant's administration, the position of Assistant to the Quoru m o f the Twelve was created. Death Grant died in Salt Lake City, Utah, from cardiac failure as a result o f a rteriosclerosis. As the final surviving member of the church's Counci l o f Fifty, his death marked the formal end of the organization. He wa s buri ed at Salt Lake City Cemetery.