---
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: 11
published: 1925-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Unknown, “The First General Superintendency, Y. M. M. I. A., 1880,” *Improvement Era 28, no. 11 (September 1925)*: 1016–1016."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28011unse
  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: improvementera28011unse
start_page: 1016
end_page: 1016
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1925-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28011unse
  publication_year: 1925
  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 1925, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The First General Superintendency, Y. M. M. I. A., 1880

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mmzfflmsTzzizMfflffimmzmzmszmMZfflm THE FIRST GENERAL SUPERINTENDENCY Y. M. M. I. A., 1880 Above: Wilford Woodruff, General Superintendent. Center: Joseph F. Smith, First Counselor, and Moses Thatcher, Second Counselor. Below: Heber J. Grant, General Secretary. (See "Historical Sketch Y. M. M. I. A." in this number of the Era.)