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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. subject matter from which this sketch was taken was given by Myron Tanner to his children, Sunday,June 14, Provo at 1896, City, Utah, where the family had gathered to cele brate the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The gathering, how ever, had been postponed a week in view of the enforced absence of some of the family. "1 was born," he said, "on the 7th day of June, 1826, in the town of Bolton, Warren County, State of New York, where I lived until I was eight years old." This little town is located on a beau tiful spot of earth near Lake George. It was here that John Tanner, the father of Myron Tanner, received the gospel. The father was a prosperous man in those days, and one of the leading farmers of the community in which he lived. Wishing to jcin the body of the Saints, with whose destiny he The much of it became identified, he left Bolton, December 25, 1834, and arrived at Kirtland in March, 1835. The family remained in Kirt land for three years, where they were largely engaged in the erec now tion of the Temple. The names of John Tanner and his older son Sidney Tanner, being honorably mentioned among those entitled to recognition for their devoted services in the erection of the house of God. John Tanner himself was an energetic and intelligent farmer, and his love for and cultivation of t1.e soil characterized his labors at each stopping place in every exodus of the Saints. His old farm at Kirtland is still in the ownership and possession of one of his descendants. Here at stirring Kirtland, not only the earliest recollections, but the were deeply impressed upon the mind. events of the times |
