Samuel Edwin Woolley

(son of Samuel Wickersham Woolley and Maria Angell). Born October 22, 1859, Salt Lake City.

   Married:	Alice Rowberry May 6, 1885, Logan, Utah (daughter of John Rowberry and Harriet Frances Goliher of Grantsville, Utah). She was born August 6, 1861.

   Their children:

           Ralph Edwin born March 4, 1886;

           John Franklin born March 3, 1888;

           Leone born January 19, 1890;

           Moroni Rowberry born April 6, 1892;

           Ethel born March 30, 1895;

           Joseph Rowberry born September 13, 1898, Hawaiian Islands;

           Samuel Ray born November 15, 1900, Sandwich Islands.

   Family home Grantsville, Utah.

In early boyhood he moved with his parents from Salt Lake City to Grantsville, Tooele county, where he grew up under the guidance and influence of his father, who instructed him in the duties and work of the ranch. He attended school a few months each year when he could be spared from his place in the saddle on his father’s ranch. In his teens he was ordained a deacon and acted as one of the presidents of a quorum. Was appointed missionary to Sandwich Islands by President John Taylor and left three days later for his post, accompanied by his uncle, Henry A. Woolley, after being ordained an elder by Joseph F. Smith.

After three and one-half years in the Sandwich Islands he returned 1884 to Utah and was appointed home missionary of Tooele stake and became also a seventy and member of the 31st quorum at Grantsville. Later he was made alternate high councilor of the stake and was ordained a high priest by Heber J. Grant; presided over the YMMIA of Tooele stake. In 1890 was called by President Woodruff to a mission in the losepa colony and from there was called by President Joseph F. Smith to take charge of the Hawaiian mission. Taking his wife and four children with him, he sailed on August 31, 1895, for the post, whence he returned in 1902 to bring home his wife, whose health was falling. Went back to his mission, where he went on with the work which he and his wife so earnestly commenced and where he succeeded in building UD the church membership to over 8,500 souls. Sources:

   Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah photographs, page 139

   Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 1263