Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 41: June 1, 1906
Bishop Whitney was but a youth of twenty-three, unmarried and comparatively unknown, when he was ordained a High Priest and set apart to preside over the Eighteenth Ward, one of the original nine teen wards into which Salt Lake City in early days was divided. The Bishop's grandfather. Newel K. Whitney, first pre sided over that ward. And was at the same time the Presiding Bishop of the Church. He died in 1850. The immediate prede cessor of his grandson was Lorenzo D. Young, who resigned the Office early in 1878. In the summer of that year - Sun day, July 14, was the date - Orson F. Whitney was called 'to be the Bishop of the Eighteenth Ward. He held the position until his call to the Apostleship, Sunday, April 8, 1906; thus serving in the Bishop ric for nearly twenty-eight years, - almost a lifetime in these degenerate days.
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