Record ID:
49864116 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 50041153
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18140717
  • Penwortham, England 1840 - 1846
  • 1847 -
Death:
  • 18791204
  • Salt Lake City, Utah 1840 - 1846
  • 1847 -
Associated with:
  • England United States 1840 - 1846
  • 1847 -
Lived/located in:
  • Nauvoo, Ill. 1840 - 1846
  • Salt Lake City, Utah 1847 -
Fields of activity:
  • music
Occupations:
  • author
  • clerk
  • private secretary
  • missionary
  • treasurer
  • auditor
  • pioneer
Used for:
  • Clayton, W. (William), 1814-1879
Notes:
  • His William Clayton's journal.
  • Amer. nat'l biog., May 4, 2004 (Clayton, William (17 July 1814-4 Dec. 1879), chronicler of early Mormonism, pioneer, and musician)
  • Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia, 1901 vol.1 p.717-718 (Clayton, William, prominent Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints (baptized in 1837), born July 17, 1814 at Penwortham, Lancashire, England; missionary, arrived Nauvoo December, 1840; clerk and private secretary to Prophet Joseph Smith; treasurer of the city of Nauvoo; 1847 came to Great Salt Lake Valley with the first Mormon pioneers to reach the valley; resided in Salt Lake City until deat on December 4, 1879; treasurer of Z.C.M.I.; Territorial Auditor of Public Accounts)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)885471
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC DLC KU UPB