Burton K. Farnsworth
Born: 6 March 1890
Called as Second Assistant Superintendent of the YMMIA: 1937
Died: 27 September 1945
Called as Second Assistant Superintendent of the YMMIA: 1937
Died: 27 September 1945
Biographical Articles
Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 4
Improvement Era, December 1945, Joseph J. Cannon and Burton K. Farnsworth Y.M.M.I.A. Leaders Mourned
Relief Society Magazine, January 1946, In Memoriam: Elder Joseph J. Cannon and Elder Burton K. Farnsworth
Improvement Era, December 1945, Joseph J. Cannon and Burton K. Farnsworth Y.M.M.I.A. Leaders Mourned
Relief Society Magazine, January 1946, In Memoriam: Elder Joseph J. Cannon and Elder Burton K. Farnsworth
Jenson, Andrew. "Farnsworth, Burton Kent." Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 4. pg. 237-238.
FARNSWORTH, Burton Kent, a member of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. since 1935, was born March 6, 1890, at Beaver City, Utah, a son of Franklin D. Farnsworth and Meleci While. He was baptized July 7, 1898, by S. 0. White, and filled a mission to Samoa from 19^9 to 1912, laboring part of the time as secretary of the mission and as president of the Upolu Conference. He was ordained a High Priest by Apostle Rudger Clawson, and after being ordained a Bishop by Pres. David O. McKay he presided over the Fillmore 1st Ward from 1928 to 1931. Elder Farnsworth began teaching in Montpelier, Idaho, in 1912, and is now professor of education at the Utah State Agricultural College. He secured the degrees of B. S. and M. A. at the Utah State Agricultural College, and the degree of Ed. D. at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1933. On Oct. 3, 1913, in the Salt Lake Temple, Bro. Farnsworth married Mabel Pearce of Montpelier. Six children have been born to them, namely, Lucille, Dean Burton, Margaret Agnes, Patty Linn, Robert Pearce and Richard Kent.
FARNSWORTH, Burton Kent, a member of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. since 1935, was born March 6, 1890, at Beaver City, Utah, a son of Franklin D. Farnsworth and Meleci While. He was baptized July 7, 1898, by S. 0. White, and filled a mission to Samoa from 19^9 to 1912, laboring part of the time as secretary of the mission and as president of the Upolu Conference. He was ordained a High Priest by Apostle Rudger Clawson, and after being ordained a Bishop by Pres. David O. McKay he presided over the Fillmore 1st Ward from 1928 to 1931. Elder Farnsworth began teaching in Montpelier, Idaho, in 1912, and is now professor of education at the Utah State Agricultural College. He secured the degrees of B. S. and M. A. at the Utah State Agricultural College, and the degree of Ed. D. at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1933. On Oct. 3, 1913, in the Salt Lake Temple, Bro. Farnsworth married Mabel Pearce of Montpelier. Six children have been born to them, namely, Lucille, Dean Burton, Margaret Agnes, Patty Linn, Robert Pearce and Richard Kent.
"Joseph J. Cannon and Burton K. Farnsworth Y.M.M.I.A. Leaders Mourned." Improvement Era. December 1945. pg. 745, 774.
JOSEPH J. CANNON and BURTON K. FARNSWORTH Y.M.M.I.A. Leaders Mourned Joseph J. Cannon The youth organizations of the Church will feel the loss of Elder Joseph J. Cannon, first assistant general superintendent of the Y.M. M.I. A., who died on November 4, 1945, at the age of 68. The son of George Q. and Sarah Jane Jenne Cannon, he was respected and loved by all who knew him. The people of the far-away stakes of Zion were encouraged and inspired when he visited and conducted M.I.A. conventions. Only those who have lived away from the central stakes can appreciate what the annual visits of the M.I.A. leaders mean to the Church members who are laboring to build up Zion far from home. Elder Cannon brought to those workers the spirit of the gospel, and he helped renew the ties with home by his friendly and understanding spirit. His name as a Church worker has been familiar to all for many years. He was superintendent of Ensign Stake Y.M.M.I.A. for three years. He served as president of the British Mission for three years, returning in September 1937 to accept the position of assistant superintendent of the Y.M.M.I.A. An appointment as president of the Temple Square Mission came on October 12, 1937. He had previously served as Y. M. M. I. A. superintendent in the Eighteenth and Twentieth wards of Salt Lake City. As a student at the University of Utah, from which he graduated in 1 899 with a bachelor of arts degree, he was active in many fields. He served as editor of the Chronicle, student body president, athletic manager, manager of the football team, and a member and organizer of the first track team. He was also a student of languages and had marked literary talents. He was associate editor of the Millennial Star from 1902 to 1904, and later, in 1931, became editor of The Deseret News. He wrote plays, three of which were produced. The Wild Pigeon and Rio de Amor were presented in the old Playhouse and Salt Lake theaters. Thin Air was presented in 1943 by the Deseret Players at the Lyric Theater. He had dramatic talents as well and it was a pleasure to hear him read one of his plays. He showed a keen sense of humor and a sympathetic understanding of human nature, for he was genial and sociable. All mourn Elder Cannon's passing. His many friends and co-workers will miss him. The Church has lost a loyal and talented servant. The Era extends sympathy to his wife, Mrs. Ramona Wilcox Cannon, and the family who survive him: five sons, Wayne D. Cannon, in Europe representing Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Corporation; Lt. Grant G. Cannon, St. Louis, Missouri; Adrian W. Cannon, Los Angeles; Ensign Bryant W. Cannon, San Francisco; and Mark W. Cannon, Deep Springs, California; two daughters, Mrs. Julian H. Steward, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Thomas F. Ralphs, Salt Lake City; eight grandchildren; eleven brothers and six sisters. Burton K. Farnsworth, Educator Dr. Burton K. Farnsworth, 55, second assistant superintendent, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Saturday evening, October 27, 1945, in the Virginia Mason Hospital at Seattle, Washington, and is mourned by his numerous friends and family. He was the son of Franklin D. and Melissa White Farnsworth. Active in both Church and state education circles, Elder Farnsworth was director of secondary education in the state department of public instruction and second assistant to the general superintendent of the Y.M.M.I.A. Of his early life Brother Farnsworth once wrote in a brief autobiographical sketch; "I was born in Beaver City, Utah, in the same year of the Lord that the state of my nativity, then a territory, issued its famous 'manifesto.' "My mother died when I was three years old. Of this experience I remember only the manifestations of grief on every side. When I was five years old, my father married again. I remember distinctly some of the preparations made for the long trip by team and wagon from Beaver to Salt Lake where he and his fiancée went to get married. Daily during the two weeks of their absence, Dennis, my older brother, and I rode the old fence poles that were the 'bars' of entrance to our home, anxiously waiting Father's return, knowing we were to have an 'Aunt Mary.' How happy we were when the tired team, drawing the covered wagon and our loved ones, drew into sight. We ran to meet it and rode the last hundred yards with them. I was given a new wooden handled pocket knife! It was wonderful. I still carry on my index finger the markings of an early experience with it. "The following year I began school, then the usual: lessons, fights, picnics, games, going to the principal, staying in at recess or after school." After attending high school academy and finishing his work in three years, he left home and began to work for an older brother on his farm. Elder Farnsworth was called on a mission to Samoa in 1909, going by way of Vancouver, Hawaii, and the Fiji Islands. He was appointed mission secretary and served most of his time at mission headquarters. Returning in May 1912, he entered summer school in June, and then in the fall secured a position teaching school in Montpelier, Idaho, where he met Mabel Pearce, a teacher in the same school, who later became his wife. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple October 13, 1913. Elder Farnsworth's activities were varied, but he kept to his course, receiving a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree at the U.S.A.C, and a doctor of education degree at the University of California at Berkeley. Elder Farnsworth decided that teaching and the rich association it offered gave him greater joy and fulfilment than he would find in any other profession, so he bent his efforts toward advancement in the field of education. He was appointed superintendent of Millard county schools, later professor of education at U.S.A.C, and subsequently was offered a position in the state department of education. But his activities in education did not lessen his enthusiasm for his Church work. He was a bishop from 1928 to 1931, and was superintendent of the Ensign Ward M.I.A. Having been appointed to the M.I.A. general board in 1935, he was appointed by George Q. Morris, general superintendent, as second assistant in April 1937. Elder Farnsworth has always had a deep appreciation of the arts, and the past winter he satisfied a lifelong ambition to "try" his talent. He attended a few evening art classes of Joseph A. F. Everett whom he greatly admired, and developed a great enthusiasm for painting in oils. During the last few months of his life, he found his greatest relaxation in his painting, and his work is highly prized by his family and friends. The Era extends sympathy to bis wife, Mrs. Mabel Pearce Farnsworth, who was with him in Seattle, and to his family who survive him: three daughters, Mrs. Lucile Hales, Pasadena, California; Mrs. Margaret Richards, and Patty Farnsworth, Salt Lake City; three sons, 1st Lt. Dean B. Farnsworth, army signal corps, Washington, D. C; Robert and Richard Farnsworth, Salt Lake; five grandchildren; seven brothers, and four sisters. |
JOSEPH J. CANNON
BURTON K. FARNSWORTH
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"In Memoriam: Elder Joseph J. Cannon and Elder Burton K. Farnsworth." Relief Society Magazine. January 1946. pg. 40.
In Memoriam
Elder Joseph J. Cannon and Elder Burton K. Farnsworth
THE members of Relief Society throughout the Church pay tribute at this time to the service and accomplishments of two outstanding leaders— the counselors in the superintendency of the Y.M.M.LA.
Elder Joseph J. Cannon, first assistant general superintendent, died at his home in Salt Lake City, November 4, 1945, after an illness of several weeks. Throughout his life Elder Cannon was an ardent Church worker, serving as a missionary in Sweden, editor of the Millennial Star, superintendent of the Ensign Stake Y.M.M.I.A., president of the British Mission, president of the Temple Square Mission, editor of the Deseret News and author of religious dramas, and in 1937 he was appointed first counselor in the general superintendency of the Y.M.M.LA.. Members of the Relief Society will remember Elder Cannon particularly for his excellent reports on general conference sessions which have appeared from time to time in the Magazine. The sisters of Relief Society extend love and sympathy to Sister Cannon who assembles the interesting department, "Woman's Sphere."
Elder Burton K. Farnsworth, second assistant in the general superintendency of the Y.M.M.LA., passed away October 27, 1945, in Seattle, Washington, where he had gone to attend an M.LA. convention. Elder Farnsworth was a loving father, an effective teacher, a dynamic leader, and an exemplar of the work and the faith of the Church. Born in Beaver, Utah, of pioneer parents, he became interested in education at an early age, secured his Ph.D. from the University of California, and became one of Utah's leading school officials and Church executives. We extend to Sister Farnsworth and the family our deepest sympathy in their loss, and our appreciation for the good life of this Latter-day Saint leader.
In Memoriam
Elder Joseph J. Cannon and Elder Burton K. Farnsworth
THE members of Relief Society throughout the Church pay tribute at this time to the service and accomplishments of two outstanding leaders— the counselors in the superintendency of the Y.M.M.LA.
Elder Joseph J. Cannon, first assistant general superintendent, died at his home in Salt Lake City, November 4, 1945, after an illness of several weeks. Throughout his life Elder Cannon was an ardent Church worker, serving as a missionary in Sweden, editor of the Millennial Star, superintendent of the Ensign Stake Y.M.M.I.A., president of the British Mission, president of the Temple Square Mission, editor of the Deseret News and author of religious dramas, and in 1937 he was appointed first counselor in the general superintendency of the Y.M.M.LA.. Members of the Relief Society will remember Elder Cannon particularly for his excellent reports on general conference sessions which have appeared from time to time in the Magazine. The sisters of Relief Society extend love and sympathy to Sister Cannon who assembles the interesting department, "Woman's Sphere."
Elder Burton K. Farnsworth, second assistant in the general superintendency of the Y.M.M.LA., passed away October 27, 1945, in Seattle, Washington, where he had gone to attend an M.LA. convention. Elder Farnsworth was a loving father, an effective teacher, a dynamic leader, and an exemplar of the work and the faith of the Church. Born in Beaver, Utah, of pioneer parents, he became interested in education at an early age, secured his Ph.D. from the University of California, and became one of Utah's leading school officials and Church executives. We extend to Sister Farnsworth and the family our deepest sympathy in their loss, and our appreciation for the good life of this Latter-day Saint leader.