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Nalder, William New, first counselor in the Bishopric of the Layton Ward, Davis Stake, is the son of Stephen Nalder and Esther New, and was born June 25, 1848, at Dannington, Birkshire [Berkshire], England. He was baptized into the Church February 11, 1865, by his father. His ordinations to the Priesthood occurred in the following order: Ordained an Elder March 24, 1865, by Franklin D. Richards, a Seventy in 1876, and a High Priest September 8, 1889, by President Geo. Q. Cannon. Since 1877 he has been actively engaged in Church work in the Ward in which he lived. From 1877 to 1889 he labored as a Ward teacher, and from September 1889, to July, 1901, he served as second counselor in the Layton Ward Bishopric, and since the latter date he has acted as first counselor in the Bishopric. His chief occupation has been farming and stock raising. For fourteen years he served as road supervisor, for twenty years as a school trustee and for four years as county commissioner in Davis county. In 1866, at the age of eighteen years, he made a trip across the plains to the Missouri river with an ox-train to bring wire to Utah for the Deseret Telegraph lines. During the troublesome times in early days he served in Capt. Robt. W. Burtons cavalry company, known as the Kaysville Minute Company. Together with his parents he came to Utah in 1854 and located in Salt Lake county, where the family lived till 1857, when they moved to Layton, Davis county. Here Brother Nalder has made his home ever since. 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 2:91 |
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