Mutual Work

Mutual Work.

New Secretary and Assistant Manager. At a meeting of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. held on Wed- nesday, October 13, Elder Moroni Snow, on the recommendation of the General Superintendency of Y. M. M. I. A., presented by Elder Heber J. Grant, was unanimously appointed General Secretary of the Board, and Assistant Business Manager of the Improvement Era. He is the son of Erastus Snow and Artemesia Beaman, and was born in Provo, May 13, 1858. His parents moved to St. George in 1862, where young Snow spent the early part of his life. He attended the public schools, and in 1875 entered the Deseret University, where he spent three years. In St. George he had his first mission through Wash- ington, Iron and Beaver counties with Elder C. S. Burton in the inter- est of the Y. M. M. I. A. In 1879 he went on a mission to Great Brit- ain, returning on account of ill health in the fall of 1880. In the M. I. A. he is an old worker, having served as ward president, counselor to Superintendent A. W. Ivins of St. George Stake, and on the departure of Elder Ivins for the Mexican mission, as stake superintendent, which posi- tion he occupied until 1885,when he removed to the north. In 1900 he settled in Provo,where he served as an alternate member of the High Council, was subsequently ordained Bishop of the Provo Fourth ward, and on the division of the Provo wards became bishop of the Fifth ward, which position he held until his removal to Salt Lake, in 1906. He has held several political positions, including alderman, jus- tice of the peace, county recorder, county superintendent of district schools, and deputy county surveyor of Washington county. In Provo he was a member of the Provo city council, serving two years as president of that body, and was re-elected a member of the council and continued to serve in that capacity until his removal to Salt Lake. In 1882 he married Emma Adelaide Gates, daughter of the late Jacob Gates, and they have eight children. His wide experience, zeal and varied abilities will now be devoted to the Era, and to the growth of the thriving organ- ization of which he is now the general secretary.