--- 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: 18 number: 12 published: 1915-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "William Wallace Cluff," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 12 (October 1915): 1073.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18012unse 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: improvementera18012unse start_page: 1073 end_page: 1073 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18012unse publication_year: 1915 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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # William Wallace Cluff WILLIAM WALLACE CLUFF Born March 8, 1832, in Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio, Died August 21, 1915, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Elder Cluff was the fourth son of David and Elizabeth Hall Guff, who had a family of twelve sons and one daughter. Driven from Kirtland, Ohio, the family located in Nauvoo, in 1840. They were expelled from that place in the exodus of 1846. William was baptized in 1843, in the Mississippi River, by Elder Peter Shurtz. After the exodus crossed the plains in 1850, arriving in Salt Lake valley in October, settling in Provo. He served in the Walker Indian war in 1853, and in 1854 was called on a four years' mission to the Sandwich Islands. Returning, he was sent to Scandina- via in 1860, where he traveled for three years. In October, 1863, he married Ann Wnipple. They have a family of five sons and three daughters. In 1864, he went on a second mission to the Sandwich Islands, with a number of leading elders of the Church, to investigate certain charges preferred by native elders against Walter M. Gibson. While on this mission, he 'saved Lorenzo Snow from drowning.^ In 1865, Elder Cluff was called, by President Young, to preside over the settlements in Morgan, Summit and "Wasatch counties, and he located at Coalville. In 1870-71 he filled a sec- ond mission to Scandinavia, presiding over the mission. He was elected twice, between 1865-85, as delegate to the territorial constitutional convention; and he served as a member of the territorial legislature for six terms, acting as president of the council during his last term. When the Summit stake of Zion was organized, July 9, 1877, he was made president, filled that position with honor for twenty-four years, until 1901, wnen he was honorably released. In November, 1900, he went with President George Q. Cannon on a special mission to the Sandwich Islands, to participate in the celebra- tion of the semi-centennial jubilee to commemorate the arrival, in Honolulu, of the first Latter-day Saint missionaries, December 12, 1850. A faithful missionary, a valiant de- fender of the faith, a worker always, a man who did great good among his fellow men, Elder Cluff went to his rest assured of the reward of a well-spent life.