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David Oman McKay was born on September 8, 1873 in Huntsville, Utah. He was the son of David McKay, a farmer, and Jennette Eveline Evans. His father was a native of Scotland, and his mother, of Wales. They supported their family on a subsistence farm in the Mormon village of Huntsville, three miles east of Ogden, Utah. The father, bishop of the Huntsville LDS Ward for twenty years, served three terms in the Utah State Senate and was one of the founders of Weber State College.
McKay was educated at the Huntsville Ward grade school and Weber Stake Academy (high school) and was installed as principal of the grade school when he was twenty. In 1897 he graduated from the University of Utah with a B. A. in pedagogy. He played on the university's first football team, was elected president of his class, and gave the valedictory address.
McKay was called to serve a proselytizing mission for the LDS Church in Scotland, where he remained for two years. During most of that period he served as president of the Scottish Conference. After returning to Utah, he became an instructor and later principal at Weber Stake Academy (now Weber State College) in Ogden. In 1906 McKay was sustained as a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he held that position until 1934, when he became a member of the First Presidency of the church. McKay's assignments as a full-time church official included service as a member of the General Super intendency of the Sunday Schools (1906 - 1934) and as church commissioner of education (1919 - 1922); and an official tour of all the foreign missions of the church (1920 - 1921) that took him to the South Seas, Australia, Egypt, Jerusalem, Europe, and Great Britain. He was president of the European Mission from 1922 to 1924. McKay subsequently filled several civic assignments. He was chairman of the Utah State Advisory Committee of the American Red Cross, chairman of the Utah Council for Child Health and Protection, chairman of the Utah Centennial Commission, regent of the University of Utah, and member of the board of trustees of Utah State University and Brigham Young University. He was also a director of Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company, the Utah First National Bank, the Heber J. Grant Insurance Company, the Utah Home Fire Insurance Company, the Beneficial Life Insurance Company, Zion's Securities Corporation, and Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution. Beginning in 1934, McKay helped to establish the Church Welfare Program, designed to provide work and welfare assistance for those suffering from depression-caused privation and want. During World War II he helped to direct special programs designed to benefit the church and its members. In 1950, David O. McKay became the senior apostle of the church, and on April 9, 1951, he was sustained as president of the church. He retained this office until his death, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mckay is known as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). As president of the church, McKay supported the growth of Brigham Young University, stepped up foreign missionary activity, actively recruited new industries to communities where Mormons settled, and sought to improve the status of church auxiliaries. From 1951 to 1970 the number of Latter-day Saints rose from 1. 1 million to 2. 9 million, the number of stakes (dioceses) increased from 184 to 500, and the missionary force expanded from 2, 000 to 13, 000. Under McKay's leadership more than 3, 750 chapels, seminaries, and other buildings were constructed, including temples in Switzerland, England, New Zealand, and California. He dedicated the huge record vault in a granite mountain near Salt Lake City. Traveling more widely than any earlier president, McKay visited church members and dedicated chapels in South Africa, South America, Central America, the South Sea Islands, and Great Britain. He directed the organization of student wards and stakes on the campuses of many universities attended by LDS students. He also supervised the completion of the $10 million David O. McKay Hospital in Ogden and the Visitors Center and Salt Lake Temple Annex in Salt Lake City, and he initiated the construction of the twenty-six-story Church Office Building completed in 1972 in Salt Lake City. Asked to describe his greatest accomplishment, McKay said, "Making the church a worldwide organization. " He is also remembered for his emphasis on the family, and for his statement: "No other success can compensate for failure in the home. "
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Mckay took a strong stand against Communism and issued official statements supporting civil rights for blacks and other minorities.
Mckay encouraged freedom of opinion and speech. His public relations program included sermons on the CBS "Church of the Air" and the establishment of the Mormon Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1964. McKay's sixty-four-year service as a general authority of the church is the longest in Mormon history, and his thirty-six years in the First Presidency was exceeded only by Joseph F. Smith.
Quotations:
"No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles. "
"When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart. .. . The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. "
"I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind. "
"Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!"
"Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life. "
"The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. "
"Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God. "
"Well, ’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart. "
"I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations. "
"Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another. "
"All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it. "
Tall, with wavy white hair (black when he was younger) and hazel-brown eyes characterized by one newsman as "fiercely tender, " McKay looked like the prophet that the Latter-day Saints believed him to be. He was a popular and forceful personality and an effective speaker who flavored his talks with quotations from Robert Burns, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and others.
On January 2, 1901, Mckay married Emma Ray Riggs; they had seven children.
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