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Salisbury, David, a member of the High Council in the Juab Stake of Zion, Juab county, Utah, was born in the fall of 1836 in Packington, Leicester county, England. His parents (Richard Salisbury and Hannah Castle) embraced the gospel early in the spring of 1844 and emigrated to America in 1849, with three sons and one daughter of whom the subject of this sketch was one. David was baptized in Oldbury, Worcestershire, England, Feb. 23, 1847, by James Bowers. The family first settled in St. Louis, Mo. In the fall of 1851 they moved into La Salle county, Illinois; the elder Salisbury preached the gospel to the inhabitants of that county while he encountered bitter opposition from Wm. Smith, brother of the Prophet Joseph, and others who had left the Church; he succeeded in building up a small branch of the Church. In the spring of 1853 the family started for Utah, arriving there the same year, and located in Tooele county, where the senior Salisbury acted as president of the High Priest quorum and leader of the choir in E. T. City. While residing in Tooele county David was ordained a Seventy and became a member of the 43rd quorum of Seventy, and he was ordained a High Priest in Nephi July 19, 1890.
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 2:115 |
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