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Wootton, Attewall, senior member of the Wasatch Stake High Council, was born Dec. 26, 1839, at Tunstall, Staffordshire, England, the son of John Wootton and Ann Turner. He left England when a child (in 1842) with his parents, and after residing temporarily in St. Louis, Mo., arrived in Nauvoo in the spring of 1843. Here his father died in 1845. In 1846 his mother married Edward Robinson and moved to Burlington, Iowa. They [p.15] came to Great Salt Lake Valley in 1849 and settled in American Fork, Utah county, in 1852. In 1862 (Aug. 9th) Attewall was ordained an Elder and married to Cynthia Jane Jewett, by whom he has had seven sons and two daughters. In 1865 he became a permanent settler of Midway, Wasatch county, and in 1877 (July 15th) he was ordained a High Priest and set apart as a High Councilor in the Wasatch Stake by John Taylor. In 1898–1900 he filled a mission to Great Britain, laboring as assistant editor of the "Millennial Star." At home he acted as the first president of the Y. M. M. I. A. of Midway and was for many years superintendent of the Midway Sunday school. His leading occupation has been school teaching; he taught almost continuously in the district schools from 1861 to 1906. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 2, p.14
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