Edward Partridge, Junior. was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature, the Utah State Constitutional Convention, and president of the Utah Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the stake included all of Utah County, Utah.
Background
Partridge was the son of Edward Partridge, the first Presiding Bishop of the Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Church, and his wife Lydia. Partridge was born in Independence, Missouri and was less than a year old when the Latter-day Saints were driven out of that place.
Career
The family moved to Clay County, Missouri, then Caldwell County, Missouri and then to Nauvoo where Partridge"s father died when young Edward was about seven. Partridge arrived in Utah in 1848 and then was called on a mission to Hawaii in 1854, where he remained until 1857. In 1858 Partridge married Sarah Lucretia Clayton, a daughter of William Clayton.
He later moved to Farmington, Utah where he ran Amasa M. Lyman"s farm there.
In 1877 he became a counselor to Ira North. Hinckley in the presidency of the Millard Stake which was headquartered in Fillmore. From 1882 to 1885 Partridge served as president of the Hawaiian Mission of the church.
He served as a counselor to Abraham O. Smoot in the Utah Stake Presidency from 1892 to 1895 and then served as president of the Utah Stake from 1895 until his own death. Partridge had married Elizabeth Buxton as a second wife in 1862.
He had a total of seventeen children, only twelve of whom outlived him.