Background
Tanner was born in Payson, Utah Territory in a Latter-day Saint family.
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Harvard Law School.
Career
He has been described as "one of the most gifted teachers and writers in the Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". From 1887 to 1891, Tanner was the principal of Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. In 1891, he became the leader of the first group of Latter-day Saints to enroll at Harvard University.
Tanner studied law at Harvard Law School until 1894, when his ill health prompted him to return to Utah.
From 1896 to 1900, Tanner was president of Utah Agricultural College, which is today Utah State University. At the same time, he became the second assistant to Lorenzo Snow in the general superintendency of the church"s Deseret Sunday School Union.
When Snow died and was succeeded by Joseph F. Smith, Tanner became Smith"s second assistant in the church"s Sunday School. Tanner retired in 1906 and emigrated to Alberta, Canada, where he farmed in the Cardston area.
He wrote a number of books, including manuals for the church"s Sunday School and a biography of John R. Murdock.
Tanner was a practitioner of plural marriage and had five wives. Tanner died in Lethbridge, Alberta and was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Religion
In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints