Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
We met on the th to organize the High Council and
Presidency of the Stake &c at Parowan having returned there that
morning. John L. Smith was appointed President of the Stake
John Steel 1st Councillor and Henry Lunt 2nd Councillor
E. H. Groves, M. Cruthers R. Harmons, Joseph Chatterly
J Graham James A Little Wm H Dame, John D Laee^ee^
Samuel West Elijah Newman Francis T. Whitney and Joel
H Johnson formed the High Council. Philip Chicken
Smith Bishop of Cedar City and Tarlton Lewis Bishop of
Parowan. The whole of these were ordained under the
hands of Elders Orson Pratt Wilford Woodruff and George A Smith
making 10 High Priests 12 High Councillors 1 President of the Stake
with his two Councillors.
We left Parowan the next day and
two days afterwards wasere at Filmore where we stayed over the
Sunday.
I entered a city lot in Filmore which was then the
Capitol of the Territory and I also got one entered for George
A. Smith and Orson Pratt.
Returning home at Spanish Fork I
entered 160 acres for a farm.
