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343 George Shepherd Tanner, the author, is a son of Henry Martin was born in Joseph City, Arizona, and attended the public schools of Joseph City January 26, 1897, and the Snowflake Stake Academy. In the fall of 1916, George entered Brigham Young University where he completed two years of college work. World War I then intervened and he spent the winter of 1918-19 at Camp Kearney, California. Soon after being and Eliza Parkinson Tanner. He from the army he was called on a mission to the Eastern States where he spent two years. Following his release from the mission he enrolled at the University of Utah where he graduated discharged in 1923. were just getting started at this George was offered a position and assigned to Vernal where he opened the seminary in 1923. The following year he was trans­ ferred to Sugar City where he established the seminary at Sugar City and eventually in Rexburg and Teton. The seminaries of the church time and In 1925 he married Mildred Louise Hogge in the Salt Lake temple. They have three children, Jewell Woodward of Spokane, Dr. Stanley Tanner, and Shirley Myers, the latter two bf Salt Lake George City, and fourteen grandchildren. George took a sabbatical leave and did graduate work at the University of Chicago for a year preparatory to assuming the duties of the director of the Latter-day Saint Institute at Moscow, Idaho. This position he held until February, 1960, when he was called by the First Presidency to head the Bureau of Informa­ tion at the temple grounds in Laie, Oahu, Hawaii. He returned to Utah in 1961 and taught three years at the Institute at Logan before retiring to his present home in Salt Lake (Holladay). In the spring of 1930 George was the bishop of the Salem Ward, Rexburg Stake, 1926-30, and was a member of the High Council in the Spokane Stake at the time of its organization in 1947. He has written a number Religious Environment in which Mormonism Arose, Comparative Christian Religions, and Henry Martin Tanner, Joseph City, Arizona, Pioneer. Another volume, Joseph City on the Little of books The Colorado, is ready for publication.