In preparation for the new year, where we will be learning from the life and teachings of   President Lorenzo Snow in Priesthood and Relief Society. I wanted to gather some facts and aspects from his life.

• President Snow was born April 3, 1814 and grew up in Mantua, Ohio. He was attending Oberlin College when he met David W. Patten, a missionary for the the Church and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
• His sister, Eliza R. Snow had joined the Church and invited him to visit Kirtland. He accepted. He came to know Joseph Smith and received a testimony of the work. He was baptized in June 1836.
• After serving a couple of missions in Ohio, Southern Illinois and Kentucky, he returned to Nauvoo. In a discussion with Elder H.G. Sherwood who was teaching on the parable of the Savior regarding the Laborers in the Vineyard, Lorenzo received the following couplet in revelation: “As man now is, God once was, / As God now is, man may become.”
• Lorenzo was called on a mission to England, where he served with Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Parley P. Pratt. After returning he was called on a mission to Ohio where he was when he heard the news of the Prophet’s martyrdom.
• Lorenzo arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1848. In February of the next year, he was invited to meet with the Quorum of the Twelve and was informed he was to become an Apostle. In that October he was sent to proclaim the Gospel in Italy.
• Upon returning home he was called to settle Box Elder area, they called the settlement Brigham City. He spent 20 years developing a robust economy there with over $40,000 of goods produced annually.
• In 1872-73, Lorenzo Snow with other church leaders toured Europe and visited the Holy Land.
• Elder Snow was imprisoned for 11 months for ‘unlawful cohabitation’ under anti-polygamy laws
• He was sustained the President of the Quorum of the Twelve in 1889. After the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple to oversee the ordinance work of the temple.
• He was sustained as President of the Church when he was 84 years old.
• As President of the Church he travelled to St. George where he received the revelation regarding the need for the saints to recommit to the law of tithing.
• President Snow passed away shortly after the the October conference in 1901. He was 88 years old.