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McQuarrie, Robert, Bishop of Ogden Second Ward, Weber Stake of Zion, was born Aug. 17, 1832, in North Knapdale parish, Argyleshire, Scotland, the son of Allen McQuarrie and Agnes Mathieson. He became a convert to "Mormonism" in 1853, and being baptized Oct. 9th of that year, in the river Clyde, by Elder Robert Baxter, he became a member of the Greenock branch. He was ordained a Teacher March 19, 1855, ordained a Priest June 5, 1856, and emigrated to Utah, together with his father's family in 1857, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "George Washington," and the plains in Captain Jesse B. Martin's company. Soon afterwards he located in Ogden, which has been his permanent home ever since. During the "move" of 1858 Brother McQuarrie was one of the brethren who were left to destroy the property of the people in case the army should prove hostile after entering the Valley. He was ordained a Seventy Feb. 17, 1859, and became a member of the 60th quorum. In 1860 (April 29th) he married Mine Fink, a native of Denmark, and in 1861 he was appointed a special policeman of Ogden City and water master on the Weber Canal. In 1862 (Dec. 4th) he was ordained a High Priest by Lester J. Herrick and set apart as his second counselor, he being Bishop of the Ogden Second Ward. Elder McQuarrie labored in that position about seven years. In 1863 (April 14th) he was appointed 1st lieutenant in a battalion of the Weber county militia. In 1865 (May 20th) he was appointed Sunday school superintendent of Weber county, which position he held for seven years. Later in the same year he was called to take charge of the Sunday school in the Ogden Second District. In 1870 (Feb. 20th) he was appointed president of the Ogden Second District, and in 1871 (Feb. 18th) he was chosen second counselor to Bishop Lester J. Herrick, of Weber Ward; he acted in these two ecclesiastical positions till the spring of 1872, when he was called on a mission to Great Britain, during which he presided over the Newcastle conference and later over the Glasgow conference. After his return home in the spring of 1874 he resumed his labors as president of the Ogden Second District. In 1875 he was appointed treasurer of Weber county, and the following year he was regularly elected to that office for four years. In 1877 he was elected a councilman of Ogden City and on May 28, 1877, ordained a Bishop by Apostle Erastus Snow and set apart to preside over the Ogden Second Ward. In 1885 he married Hester Summerhays as a plural wife, which act ended his political career. Bishop McQuarrie is one of the noble men of the earth and has served his people both ecclesiastically and civilly in many more positions than those enumerated in the foregoing. He has presided as Bishop thirty-one years and has ever discharged his duties with honor to himself and to the perfect satisfaction of all whose interests were guarded by his integrity, wisdom and ability.
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 2:16 |
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