1870-1879
Statistical Information
Membership: 128,386
Membership Growth:
Converts Baptized:
Missionaries Called: 1,371
Missionaries Serving (avg/yr): 161
Number of Wards:
Number of Stakes:
Number of Missions:
Number of Temples: 1
Major Events in this decade of Church History:
Temples Built:
1 Total
St. George Utah (1877)
Apostle Deaths:
George A. Smith (1875)
Brigham Young (1877)
Orson Hyde (1878)
Apostles Called:
Albert Carrington (1877)
Church Leadership:
(1873)
George A. Smith
Brigham Young
Daniel H. Wells
Orson Hyde
John Taylor
Wilford Woodruff
Orson Pratt
Charles C. Rich
Lorenzo Snow
Erastus Snow
Franklin D. Richards
George Q. Cannon
Joseph F. Smith
Brigham Young Jr.
Albert Carrington
*In 1875, when dealing with in the council of the Twelve Apostles in 1875, Brigham Young ruled that if a council member had been disciplined and removed from the council, his seniority was based on the date of readmission. By this ruling, both Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt were moved down in quorum seniority. As a result, John Taylor replaced Hyde as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Therefore, Taylor rather than Hyde succeeded Brigham Young as President of the Church after Young’s death.
