--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 28 number: 1 published: 1924-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “Dr. James Edward Talmage,” *Improvement Era 28, no. 1 (November 1924)*: 2–2." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2801unse 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: improvementera2801unse start_page: 2 end_page: 2 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1924-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2801unse publication_year: 1924 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 1924, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Dr. James Edward Talmage DR. JAMES EDWARD TALMAGE ONE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES Born in Hungerford, Berks, England, Sept. 21, 1862, and therefore just started on his 63 rd year. He has been successively ordained Deacon, Teacher, Elder, High Priest, and Apostle. To his present exalted position as one of the Twelve, he was ordained on Dec. 8, 1911, under the hands of President Joseph F. Smith, his counselors, and members of the Twelve. On October 24, 1924, accompanied by his wife, Sister May Booth Talmage, their daughter Helen, and son John, he sailed from Montreal, Canada, on S. S. Montcalm, for England, to succeed Elder David O. McKay, of the Council of Twelve, in the presidency of the European mission. The jurisdiction of this presidency covers the British mission, all the Continental missions of Europe, and in addition the Armenian and South African missions.