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Show John Tanner and His 328 Family John Tanner Joseph t Smith Tanner t HENRY SMITH TANNER Joseph Smith and Elizabeth Clark Payson, Utah, February 15, 1869. After home town he attended Brigham Young in his school finishing public and in Brigham Young Academy in Provo. In 1894 Logan College he received the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy and in 1894 the Smith Tanner, Tanner, was born in Henry Haws son of Bachelor of Didactics. In 1890 he was called on a mission to the Southern States and released two years later in 1892. In 1894 he became president of the California Mission, a position he held two years. Following this he taught two years at Brigham Young Academy. was In 1897 he attended the Law School at Ann Arbor, Michigan, received his Bachelor of Laws in 1899 and then returned to Salt Lake to begin private law practice. In 1904 he became city judge in Salt Lake City, a position he held for three years after which he returned to private practice of law in Salt Lake City which he continued until his death in 1935. widely known for his eloquence and attracted much debate with J.F. Curtis, a representative of the Reorgan ized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Henry attention in was a broad field of knowledge as a man of ability. church the throughout His contributions to church publications were considerable and added further to his stature. Extensive travels added to his already and he became known Like his father and grandfather, Henry espoused the principle plural wives and his children numbered twenty-eight. By adding his father's thirty-one and his grandfather's twenty-one, we have a total of eighty children from these three prolific Tanner men. of |
