---
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: 15
number: 4
published: 1912-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Elders of Leeds Conference, England," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 4 (February 1912): 315–316.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  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: improvementera1504unse
start_page: 315
end_page: 316
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Elders of Leeds Conference, England

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ELDERS OF LEEDS CONFERENCE. OCTOBER 28, 1911 Back row: George Heaps, Jedediah McKay, Elmer C. Rigby, Herbert East, John R. Bellamy. Joseph E. Blake. .„,..„.. T -d^q™ Benson.
 Third row: Wm. Hudson, George B. Sheffield, Melvm J.
Jesse WMatthews, Thos. G. Harrison. George O. Low.
 Second row: Henrv R. Perry, J. Morgan Lake, Fred C. Parker (Conference President). Rudger Clawson (President of European Mission).
Austin Conference), Robert A. Brighton.
 H Shaw (Clerk of Fullmer,
 Front row? Lewis E. Charles J. Parry, Hugh F. McLean,
Shores Loveless.

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ELDERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
 Top row, left to right: Artemus Crane, Austin Houtz, William C.
Crook, C. B.Whitney, Elmer P. Chipman.
 Middle row: Joseph F. Hintze, A. Fred Murdock, Franklin R. Gardner, John S. Sagers, mission president; Gottlieb Blatter, Louis A. Nelson.
 Bottom row: Alfred J. Gowers, Jr., mission clerk; Rufus Beach, S. R.
Boswell.