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Yeates, Richard, Bishop of the Third Ward, Logan, Cache county, Utah, is the son of William and Harriet Yeates and was born July 19, 1849, in Rose-Green, Sussex, England. He was baptized by William Stoner at Brighton, England, March 15. 1864; emigrated to Utah in 1868, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Colorado," which sailed from Liverpool, July 14, 1868; he located in Logan, Cache county, where he still resides. July 7, 1884, he was ordained a Seventy. From 1884 to 1888 he held the position of assessor and collector of Logan city. In 1889-90 he filled a mission to England. May 4, 1891, he was ordained a High Priest and set apart to act as first counselor to Bishop Robert Davidson by Apostle Franklin D. Richards. This position he held until the Bishop's death. At the quarterly conference held in Logan April 30, 1900, he was ordained a Bishop and set apart to preside over the Third Ward, Logan, by Apostle Geo. Teasdale. On the same occasion Wm. Watterson and James Larsen were set apart as his counselor's. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. Salt Lake City 1:421 |
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