Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
the and met at the mouth of the Kanyon. I took my family
in a carriage and drove there to visit them and take minutes of their
organization. President Young arrived at half past 10 o'clock
and organized the company by appointing A. O. Smoot captain
William Miller captain of the guard Elder Benson Chaplain
and James Ure clerk. He gave them some instruction
concerning their journey and also gave them his parting blessing
Brother J. V. Long reported his speech and Wilford Woodruff took
a list of the names of those going East on mission and found them
to be 36 in number. Professor Orson Pratt was going to Liverpool
to take the place of Franklin D. Richards. He was accompanied
by Elder E. T. Benson also of the Twelve Apostles and other missionaries
to England. The Hon. George A Smith was going to Washington
as a delegate from our State Convention to urge in connection
with the Hon. John Taylor the claims of Utah to be numbered
with the States. Elder Erastus Snow of the Twelve was going
to St Louis to preside and publish the Luminary and Marshal
