---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 1
number: 12
published: 1898-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Editor’s Table: Life Sketch and Engraving of President Wilford Woodruff", *Improvement Era* 1, no. 12 (October 1898): 937.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera112unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera112unse
start_page: 937
end_page: 937
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera112unse
  publication_year: 1898
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Editor’s Table: Life Sketch and Engraving of President Wilford Woodruff

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EDITOR'S TABLE.

LIFE SKETCH AND ENGRAVING OF PRESIDENT
                  WILFORD WOODRUFF.
       In his life time President Wilford Woodruff expressed
 the wish that at his demise there should be published by the
 Church Historian, a brief account of his life, labors and
 travels as an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
 Saints.    The wish of the departed president has been carried
 out by his personal friend, fellow apostle and historian of the
 church, Elder Franklin D. Richards, who is now the president
 of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles.        That sketch together
 with a fine half tone engraving of the late president, is pub-
 lished in this issue of the Era.    The engraving is from one of
 the latest photographs of the late president, taken by Fox &
 Symons within a month of his death, and engraved especially
 for the Era by Manz of Chicago.         The likeness is a striking
 one, and will preserve in the memory of generations to come
 the fine old face, and benevolent expression of one who for so
 many years was known in every household of Israel; and who
 for nearly sixty years was an apostle of the Lord Jesus
       —
 Christ a witness for God and Christ.
      The Era is proud to publish the official sketch of the
life of President Woodruff  —   proud to present to its readers
the fine half tone engraving from his latest photograph.         It
is fitting that it should be published in the Young Men's Magazine, for he was the General Superintendent of the Young
Men's Mutual Improvement Associations throughout the
world, and held that position since the 6th of April, 1880
—  more than eighteen years.      It was an institution in which
he was always interested, a work of which he was always
proud, and at no time more so than in the later years of his life.
It is htting, therefore, that his life's labors be recorded in the
magazine which is the organ of that institution of which he
was the honored head.
      Following is a tribute of respect to the late Prophet-
Superintendent, prepared by a committee appointed by the
General Board, comprised of Junius F. Wells, Nephi L.
Morris and Willard Done: