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Durrant, Thomas Hoar, second counselor in the Franklin Ward Bishopric, Oneida Stake, is the son of William Durrant and Phoebe Hoar, and was born March 27, 1849, at Deanshunger, North Hamptonshire, England. He was baptized Sept. 28, 1851, by Alfred Henson, ordained a Teacher and later an Elder. On July 11, 1877, he was ordained a High Priest by Bishop Wm. B. Preston and set apart as second counselor to Bishop Lorenzo L. Hatch of the Franklin Ward, which position he held until quite recently. Elder Durrant acted as president of the first Y. M. M. I. A. ever organized in Idaho, this organization being effected in 1875 at Franklin. He also acted as secretary of the Sunday schools in Franklin for several years, was Stake secretary of Sunday schools in the Oneida Stake twelve years, acted as Ward clerk in Franklin and served as acting Bishop of Franklin from 1885 to 1886. He married Agnes Nish Dec. 28, 1874, and is the father of eleven children, five boys and six girls. He has acted as justice of the peace in Franklin, as village police judge, member of the 6th Idaho State legislature, clerk of Franklin, member of the city council and member of the village board at the organization of the Franklin village.
After his arrival in Utah in 1868 he located in Morgan, together with his parents, and settled in Franklin in 1870, where he has resided continuously ever since. He is widely known as a railroad man, being prominent during the construction of the Union Pacific, the Utah Central and the Utah Northern railroads. He was station agent and operator at Corrinne, in 1872-73 and at Franklin from 1874 to 1875. He engaged in lumber dealing and saw-milling business in 1875; otherwise he is a farmer by occupation.
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 2:180 |
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