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Nowers, Wilson Gates, High Priest and for thirty-one years High Councilor (now retired), is a son of Edward Nowers and Susanna Gates, .and was born at Dover, Kent, England, March 8, 1828. He was baptized March 2, 1851, by John Tippets; was ordained an Elder and a Seventy, April 6, 1852, by Zera Pulsipher, and Henry Harriman, and a High Priest and High Councilor of Beaver Stake, by John R. Murdock, March 16, 1879. Brother Nowers has filled industrial missions to Provo, 1853; Iron county, 1853-6; then to Beaver, where he was a pioneer settler, Feb. 6, 1856. He was also a home missionary for several years and went on a mission to Great Britain in 1882. In addition to the above named Church positions, he was a Ward teacher in Parowan, and Beaver for several years, High Councilor, clerk and historian, Stake clerk, and is now High Priests' quorum clerk and Ward clerk. In the civil department he has been city councilor and recorder, county recorder, county surveyor, justice of the peace, and first treasurer of Beaver county, serving gratuitously until 1880. He has also had an extensive military experience, and in Parowan, in 1853, made the first bass drum ever made in Utah. Brother Nowers was married June 28, 1855, at Parowan, Utah, to Sarah Anderson, by whom he became the father of six sons and two daughters, three of the former having died. His principal occupations have been farming, stock raising, mill and house building, besides being interested in the mercantile and woolen manufacturing business.
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 2:39 |
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