Helaman Pratt
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| Born | May 31, 1846 Near Mount Pisgah, Iowa |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Colonia Dublan, Galeana Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Known for | Mexican LDS Ministry |
| Spouse(s) | Emaline Billingsley Anna Wilcken Bertha Wilcken |
| Children | 21 |
| Parent(s) | Parley P. Pratt |
| Relatives | Rey Pratt (son), George W. Romney (grandson), Mitt Romney (great-grandson) |
Helaman Pratt (31 May 1846 – 26 November 1909) was an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the U.S. states of Nevada and Utah and later in Mexico.
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Family
Helaman was the son of Parley P. Pratt and Glasgow-born wife Mary Wood, the father of missionary Rey Pratt, the grandfather of Michigan governor George W. Romney, and the great-grandfather of Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. He was born in a covered wagon during a one-hour stopover on the Mormon Trail near Mount Pisgah, Iowa.
Church leader
In 1869, when the first LDS branch was organized in Overton, Nevada, Pratt served as branch president.[1]
From 1872 to 1873, he was president of the Glenwood Branch in Glenwood, Utah. He then was the head of the group which founded Prattville, Utah.[2]
Missionary in Mexico
Pratt was one of the first missionaries to Mexico, and in 1876 at Hermosillo, Sonora, Pratt and Meliton Trejo performed the first baptisms recorded by the LDS Church in that country. Pratt was later president of the Mexican Mission based in Mexico City from 1884 to 1887. He succeeded Anthony W. Ivins in this position and was succeeded by Horace S. Cummings. After his release he moved to Colonia Dublan in Galeana, Chihuahua. He also for a time owned and resided at the Cliff Ranch outside Cave Valley, Chihuahua. In 1895, when the Juarez Stake was organized in Mexico, Pratt, along with Henry Eyring, was called to serve as one of President Anthony W. Ivins counselors, a post he held until 1908 when the stake was reorganized with Pratt's son Junius as president.
Family
Pratt's Great - Grandson Was Don Bluth Pratt first married Emeline Victoria Billingsly (1852-1910), in 1868. Next he married, as a plural wife, German-born Anna Johanna Dorothy ("Dora") Wilcken (Dahme, Zarpin, Rheinfeld, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 25 July 1854 – Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, 22 June 1929), in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 20 April 1874. In 1898, he married Bertha Christine Wilcken Stewart (1863-1947), Dora’s younger sister. Dora and Bertha were daughters of Carl Heinrich "Charles Henry" Wilcken (Eckhorst, Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 5 October 1831 – Salt Lake City, Utah, 9 April 1914) and Eliza Christina Carolina Reiche (Neustadt in Holstein, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, 1 May 1830 – Salt Lake City, Utah, 13 August 1906). Eliza was the first of Wilcken's four wives.[3] He had first come to Utah as part of Johnston's Army but later joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
See also
References
- ↑ Jenson. Encyclopedic History. Article on Muddy Mission.
- ↑ Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1937)
- ↑ http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html Ancestry of Mitt Romney
External links
- Bio at pratt-family.org
- Histories and records at pratt-family.org
- "Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage" by Todd Compton
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- People of Utah Territory
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- American Mormon missionaries in Mexico
- American emigrants to Mexico
- Mission presidents (LDS Church)
- People from Iowa
- Pratt–Romney family
- 19th-century Mormon missionaries
- People from Colonia Dublán
- American people of English descent
- American people of Scottish descent
