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Miskin, James Richard, clerk of High Priests' quorum, Bingham Stake of Zion, Idaho, was born Nov. 6, 1846, at Woolwich, Kent, England, and is a son of William Miskin and Martha Minor. He accepted the Gospel and was baptised into the Church Jan. 9, 1889, by Fred T. Gunn, at St. John, Kansas. After coming to Utah he filled several home missions and in 1905, he went to Europe on a genealogical mission. He has twice been married and is the father of nine children. In civil life he has served as justice of the peace and postmaster and has followed farming, stockraising and merchandising. In a sketch written for this work, Elder Miskin says: "I was in Western Kansas surveying with Col. Moonlight in September, 1874, at the time the Shorts party was killed. In the spring of 1875 I settled in Barton county, Kansas, on Rattlesnake creek, now St. John. When Wm. Bickerton, so-called successor to Sidney Rigdon, came there in 1875, to start the "true Zion," he called the place Zion valley and ordained me his legal successor, and sent me out to preach to the Indians. I went, but after baptising five I was taken ill, and returned to St. John. There I met Elder Fred T. Gunn, who converted me to "Mormonism," and I came to Utah, where I was employed by Geo. Q. Cannon to solicit subscribers for the "Juvenile Instructor" and keep the people posted when the marshals were coming to raid them. We certainly had some lively times and experiences in those days."
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 2:53 |
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