Charles Root Dana

counselor leader Missionary pastor pioneer president

November 8, 1802 (age 65)

Schenectady, New York

The couple would have six more children. In 1842-1843 he was a missionary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dana was involved in bringing a suit before Joseph Smith in his function as judge of the municipal court at Nauvoo, Illinois. As a mason by trade, Dana helped complete the Nauvoo Temple in 1844 after Joseph Smith"s death. He was not sealed for eternity to Susan, as she was a widow with two sons of her own. Green gave Dana access to community groups and national leaders, and many made personal donations, including President James K. Polk, James Buchanan, and Dolley Madison. Life in Utah He settled in Ogden, where he took another wife, Harriet Elizabeth Gibson. Dana became a community leader. He served on the First and Second Territorial Legislatures, serving 1851 through 1853, representing Weber County. He served as a counselor in the Weber Stake presidency when it was first formed in 1851. In 1853 Dana went on an Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) mission to England, where he was made Pastor over conferences in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norwich. Their daughter Margaret Elizabeth reported that her mother had gone to visit family in Michigan and began the trip home to Ogden but was never heard from again, possibly killed by Indians. Before coming back to Utah, Dana had sent home two sisters, Elizabeth and Jane Culley, and he returned with two more, Ann Barlow (1835–1895) and Mary Ann Cato. Having been married four times before, Dana was married to these four new women on September 14, 1857 by Brigham Young. During the Utah War Dana moved with his family to Fillmore, Utah until the conflict ended. Back in Ogden, the growing family moved into a house in town and a farm outside of town. Before Dana died at the age of 66, he was President of a Council of Seventies.

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counselor leader Missionary pastor pioneer president

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Dana was born in Schenectady, New New York

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The couple would have six more children. In 1842-1843 he was a missionary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dana was involved in bringing a suit before Joseph Smith in his function as judge of the municipal court at Nauvoo, Illinois.

As a mason by trade, Dana helped complete the Nauvoo Temple in 1844 after Joseph Smith"s death.

He was not sealed for eternity to Susan, as she was a widow with two sons of her own. Green gave Dana access to community groups and national leaders, and many made personal donations, including President James K. Polk, James Buchanan, and Dolley Madison.

Life in Utah

He settled in Ogden, where he took another wife, Harriet Elizabeth Gibson. Dana became a community leader.

He served on the First and Second Territorial Legislatures, serving 1851 through 1853, representing Weber County.

He served as a counselor in the Weber Stake presidency when it was first formed in 1851. In 1853 Dana went on an Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) mission to England, where he was made Pastor over conferences in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norwich. Their daughter Margaret Elizabeth reported that her mother had gone to visit family in Michigan and began the trip home to Ogden but was never heard from again, possibly killed by Indians.

Before coming back to Utah, Dana had sent home two sisters, Elizabeth and Jane Culley, and he returned with two more, Ann Barlow (1835–1895) and Mary Ann Cato.

Having been married four times before, Dana was married to these four new women on September 14, 1857 by Brigham Young. During the Utah War Dana moved with his family to Fillmore, Utah until the conflict ended.

Back in Ogden, the growing family moved into a house in town and a farm outside of town. Before Dana died at the age of 66, he was President of a Council of Seventies.

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He was also one of the original members of the Ogden City Council when it was organized in 1852.

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