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Show Nathan Tanner 259 John Tanner '" Nathan Tanner '" Nathan Tanner Jr. '" Nathan Amasa Tanner "" NATHAN RUSSELL TANNER Nathan Russell Tanner has been selected to represent the Nathan Family. He is the son of Nathan Amasa and Ellen Hinchcliff Tanner Tanner and the grandson of Nathan Tanner Jr., and Margaret G. Russell is the great-grandson of Nathan Tanner. Harrington. He was born June 14, 1895, in Ogden and has lived there his was in the Ogden City schools and the Weber Academy. He entered the clothing business at the age of eleven when his father and Mr. Watson took over the clothing depart ment from Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. In 1947 his father died and Russell, together with his son Nathan, acquired pos entire life. His education session of the firm and it became the Tanner Clothing clothing business. Company. Russell has spent 'his life in the He filled a mission to the Eastern States between 1916 and 1918 and returned home to 15, 1920. woo and marry Dorothy Woods, January The lives of few men have been more completely spent in a partnership with the church. Quoting Russell: "I started teaching Sunday School in 1911 after attending the first Teacher Training class, organized as a pilot experiment by President David O. McKay in 1919 I became assistant Sunday School Superintendent of . . . the Eleventh Ward and later superintednent. Then I served in the Weber Stake Superintendency. Then I returned to the Eleventh Ward and was counselor to two bishops. After that I was called to the Weber Stake High Council. In the spring of 1941 I was called to be a counselor in the Weber Stake Presidency. I served as counselor to two presidents and in January, 1949, I became the eighth President of Weber Stake." The above is included two years which only a portion of his church assignments has Russell of guide work at the Hawaii Temple. |
