 Willet Shave Harder LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 2, p.767
Harder, Willet Shave, a Patriarch in the Summit Stake of Zion, Summit county, Utah, was born June 7, 1822, at Sandford, Hampshire, England, the son of John Harder and Elizabeth Shave. He was baptized June 8, 1848, by John Lewis, and was soon afterward ordained to the Priesthood, after which he labored for ten years as a local missionary in his native land, principally in the Southampton, Wiltshire and Bristol conferences. He emigrated to Utah in 1861, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Underwriter," and after residing in Coalville, Summit county, eight years, he moved to Kamas in 1869, where he acted as presiding Elder from 1869 to 1877, and as first counselor to Bishop Samuel F. Atwood from 1877 to 1901, when he was ordained a Patriarch. Bro. Harder died at Kamas May 13, 1902. By Ann Kerley, whom he married May 14, 1843, he had four children. |
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