---
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: 17
number: 9
published: 1914-07
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 East Pennsylvania Conference," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 9 (July 1914): 814.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1709unse
  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: improvementera1709unse
start_page: 814
end_page: 814
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1709unse
  publication_year: 1914
  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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Elders of East Pennsylvania Conference

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814                     IMPROVEMENT ERA

^rophet, Joseph Smith, and that the gospel is true.     It is the

finding medium by which men may come to God, and receive a

knowledge of things as they are, as they were, and as they are to

come, and know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life.

ELDERS OF EAST PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE

Reading from left to right, top row: Edmond Sperry, Salt Lake

City; Arthur Coon, Garfield; Eugene Hilton, Hinckley,

conference

president; James A. Faucett, Sanford, Colo.; Leonard

J.   Madison,

Vineyard, Utah; second row: Monroe Van Wagener, Midway;

Wil-

liam D Robertson, retiring conference president, Park

City; Malcolm

A. Walters, Tooele; third row: B. Frank Birtcher,

Salt Lake City,

Utah; Walter E. Dye, Firth, Idaho; Leslie Tidwell, Smithfield Utah-

Lorenzo N. Hatch, Franklin, Idaho; bottom row: Percival Billow'

Provo; Samuel Hadley, Ogden, Utah.                                &
