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in seniority among the leaders of the Church (preceded by Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, and John Taylor). At Wilford's birth, the Church numbered 85,000 souls, and he lived to see and help its population expand by twenty times that number. The significance to the Church and to the Clark posterity of W. W. Clark lies in his unswerving and uncomplicated lifetime dedication to his Priesthood leaders, his Scriptures, and his conscience. His performance in life might earn him the designation of being one man chosen of God.
Line of Authority of Wilford Woodruff Clark
Wilford W. Clark was ordained a High Priest on February 14, 1892, by Joseph F. Smith, who was ordained an Apostle on July 11, 1866, by Brigham Young, who was ordained an Apostle on February 14, 1835, by Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris. The latter three (special witnesses to the Book of Mormon) were blessed by the laying on of hands of the First Presidency, Joseph Smith Jr., Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, to choose the Council of Twelve Apostles. Joseph Smith was ordained an Apostle in 1829 by Peter, James, and John, who were ordained Apostles by Jesus the Christ, the Son of God the Father.1 [See below*]
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1. Personal Records, and Smith, J.F. Essentials in Church History, 1950.
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[Let's put the Montpelier Pavilion drawing and article here on this page 43. Its community significance will be told in the next chapter on POLITICS. It was emailed to me by Frances "Frankie" of the Montpelier Library in Bear Lake County in Feb-March 2025.]
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[HERE goes the PHOTO of SENATOR W. W. CLARK as shown in the first few pages of Springdale's Patriarch, along with the Label about 1920 Bear Lake County, Republican -- copy it!]
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