Family tree of Wilford WOODRUFF
Industrialist, Businessman
Born Wilford WOODRUFF
Fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
Born on March 1, 1807 in Farmington, Connecticut, USA , United States
Died on September 2, 1898 in San Francisco, California, USA
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Woodruff joined the Latter Day Saint church on December 31, 1833. At that time, the church numbered only a few thousand believers clustered around Kirtland, Ohio. On January 13, 1835, Woodruff left Kirtland on his first full-time mission, preaching without "purse or scrip" in Arkansas and Tennessee.
... Woodruff was one of nine children born to Aphek Woodruff, a miller working in Farmington, Connecticut. Wilford's mother Beulah died of "spotted fever" in 1808 at the age of 26, when Wilford was fifteen months old. As a young man, Wilford worked at a sawmill and a flour mill owned by his father.
Woodruff joined the Latter Day Saint church on December 31, 1833. At that time, the church numbered only a few thousand believers clustered around Kirtland, Ohio. On January 13, 1835, Woodruff left Kirtland on his first full-time mission, preaching without "purse or scrip" in Arkansas and Tennessee.
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