Life of Heber C. Kimball, An Apostle; The Father of the British Mission

Salt Lake City: Published by the Kimball Family, Printed at the Juvenile Instructor Office, 1888. First Edition. 520pp. Octavo [24 cm] 3/4 black leather over dark blue pebbled boards with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Floral endsheets and pastedowns. Complete with all five steel engravings (Heber Kimball, Vilate Kimball, Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith and Brigham Young). Lacks the tissue guard between Heber and Vilate. Very good. Small discoloration to rear boars near upper hinge. Biography of the Mormon leader penned by his grandson and part of the informal short series of biographies published in the late 19th century of LDS leaders. Heber Chase Kimball (1801-1868) was an influential Mormon leader. Born in Vermont, he later moved to upstate New York where he met Brigham Young. In 1832 he joined the Church and joined the Saints in Kirtland. Kimball was part of the Zion's Camp expedition, was made an apostle, and left on the first Mormon overseas mission to England. He followed the Church to Missouri and on to Nauvoo, Illinois. After the Saints arrived in Utah, Brigham Young made Kimball his First Counselor. Kimball was very influential in the early days of the Utah Territory

"The death of President Kimball, on the 22nd of June, 1868, was a calamity so sudden and heavy in its effect upon his family, as to almost paralyze thought and effort. Though trained to independence and self-reliance, under his wise government, and never pampered in ease and luxury, they had ever looked to him for guidance and support, and had never known the weight of responsibility resting upon him as their parent and provider, only as from time to time he had taken certain ones into his confidence and permitted them to share his burdens. In his absence they were as sheep that had lost their Shepherd." - Orson F. Whitney. Flake/Draper 9772. (Inventory #: 10121)