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Show ... d in 1912 hI! becam : the first president of the Salt County F z. r m Bur eau. H e! helped bui.ld Dr aper \ s culina! ~ water syti t e l .' . s e rv i llg fir st a s a d irector and later as president of the board. yea.rs. On De c e ru be r 1-1, 1 88 2, he mar ried Mary Emily . Wadley, of Pleasant Grove, Utah in the Endowment HOU B in Salt Lake City. They had twelve children, eight son s and four daughters. She died July 10" 1924. or a n an \ , '. He married Anna Bohne He died at his home in Draper. Friday, Novembe r 1947. Soren Ras mus s en (Fourth Bishop) -40- November 14, " Th ey were the parents of eight children, four of whom m aturity. Three are now living: Stanley A. alIIN" "-';u ,. Bc n, president of the Mt. Jordan Stake, Mrs. Naoml ell o w, and Mrs. Lavona Jensen. 10, 1941. Peter C. Rasmussen (Fifth Bishop) Pe ter C. Rasmussen, an older brolher of Soren ese n whom he succeeded as bishop, was born at .Idt, Randers, Denmark, June 7, 1857, a son of • a nd Bertha Marie Pedersen RaSlTIUSsen. He 8il1~',.'·4· ed M ette Marie Jensen in 1879. The young couple ted to Utah about 1884, and located in Draper where " en gaged in the meat and grocery businesti, also liverais ing. He filled two missions for the Church to his lan d. S o ren Rasmussen, a s on ~f Rasm~s and P ed erse n Ra s rnu ssen, was born in Gronfeldt, Randers, D enmark on April 26, 1865. He joined the Church June 1885, and emigrated to Drape r the same year, where h e for more than forty years, engaging in merchandising. moved to Sandy, Utah in 1925. He filled two missions t o Scandinavia, from 1898 to 1900, and from 1906 to 1909. was president of the Scandinavian Mission for one and a half years. He was sustained bishop of the Draper Ward December 11, 1910 and served until September 13, when he was called as first counselor to President William D. Kuhre in the Jordan Stake PreSidency. Rasmussen was President of the Jordan Stake fronl 1919 until May 2, 1927, when the stake was dlvided J ~' .AnuerSOfi, to On January 19, 1927, he married Annie D. Huff in Salt Lake Temple. He adopted her son by a previous marriage and they had four other children. He served for rnany years as a class leader in Draper Ward Sunday Schools and Y. M. M. 1. A. d West Jordan Stakes. ,: H e was a member of the bishopric of the Draper Wan ' 1898 to 1910, being second counselor to Bishop W. 13· .IS un til 1901 when he became first counselor. He acted .hop of the ward while Bishop Enniss was on a misBlon , gland from May 1906 to June 1908. On September 13, 1914, he was sustained bishop of t ) er Ward which position he held until May 26, 1918 when ve d to Midvale, and established a meat and grocery , ~ne66 . He lived in Midvale until his death February 12, A.- ~v\-tvJ 191 4 Elde r May into, ~v~-~ l~~· A-v-evt \0- ~ -q'j 1)v-Re \J1~~=:-1 t..,tJ ~ 'I. 'D , r \l.l~ 1 ~+ ~ 1{Yl' ott lAo\? ~ I 11 vvi \}-€lIP ifv( :>1 ~~~ 0L.L ll).~~· ~ v-c>L , Al _ |
