Edwin D. Woolley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Edwin D. Woolley

Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1807

Date of Death: 12-Oct-1881

Profession: priest, businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Sr.
(June 28, 1807 – October 12, 1881) was a Mormon pioneer, an early Latter-day Saint bishop in Salt Lake City, and a businessman in early Utah Territory who operated mills. Woolley was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and raised in a Quaker family.
He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the 1830s and later served as a missionary in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. In 1851, Woolley was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature.
For many years Woolley was bishop of the 13th Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.
He referred to a member of his ward, the young Heber J.
Grant, as lazy, which has been likened to someone calling Abraham Lincoln dishonest.Woolley was the grandfather of J.
Reuben Clark and Spencer W.
Kimball, among other Latter-day Saint leaders. He was also the father of John Wickersham Woolley and grandfather of Lorin Calvin Woolley, founding leaders of the Mormon Fundamentalist movement.