Pioneer: 2007 Vol.54, No.3

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1853-1856
4TH STAKE PRESIDENT
David Fullmer served as the fourth Salt
Lake Stake president, from April 1853 to
Oct* 4 1854 while Daniel Spencer served a
mission to England. He had been President Spencers
first counselor. President Fullmers counselors were
Thomas Rhodes and Phineas H, Lund.
David was born July 7, 1803, to Peter and Susannah
Zerfoss Fullmer at Chiliisquaque, Pennsylvania. David
Fullmer was baptized on Sept. 16, 1836. That winter
he joined the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio. In September
1837, he moved to Missouri. He was driven from
Missouri after the issuance of the Extermination Order.
He went to Nauvoo, continuing to Ohio to assist his
father in moving to Nauvoo. David was appointed to
the Nauvoo High Council. He worked on Joseph
Smiths U.S. presidential campaign. He was a member
of the Council of Fifty.
He was captain of
the first company to set
out for the Great Salt
Lake Valley. He helped
set up Garden Grove,
Iowa, a stopping place
for the pioneers as they
traveled west, and was a
counselor there and then
the presiding authority. He
arrived in the Valley in the
Willard Richards s company.
He spent five months in the dead of winter with an ex¬
ploring party headed by Parley P. Pratt, as they traveled
south of the Salt Lake Valley.
David Fullmer was heavily involved in civic affairs: a
member of the territorial legislature, treasurer of Salt
Lake City, treasurer pro tem of Salt Lake County and
treasurer of the University of Utah.
As stake president he organized two new wards,
bringing the number to 29. He appointed 20 bishops.
One major project during his tenure was the city wall,
constructed around the city as protection against the
Indians.
When Daniel Spencer re¬
turned from his mission to
England, he was reinstated as
; 'k' the president of Salt Lake State.
David Fullmer again became
first counselor until April 1866,
when he asked to be released be¬
cause of ill health. He was later
ordained a patriarch.
David Fullmer died Oct. 21,
1879, in Salt Lake City, He had
married Rhoda Ann Marvin in
September 1831. In Nauvoo, he
had married Sarah Banks. Rhoda
Ann had II children; Sarah had
9 children—a total of 20,
Left: Early view of the city wall
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