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Sacramento-Gridley District
SACRAMENTO-GRIDLEY DISTRICT, or, Conference of the California Mission, embraced in 1930 all the [p.724] counties of northern California in the beautiful Sacramento Valley. At the close of 1930 the district had a total membership of 1,914, including 221 children, and consisted of the following branches: Grenada, Homestead, Liberty, McDoel, Oroville, Roseville, Sacramento, Stockton, Sutter and Yuba City. There were also Sunday school organizations at Mount Shasta and Woodland. The Latter-day Saints at Homestead, Liberty, Sacramento and Yuba City owned their own chapels, as do also the saints at Gridley.
Saint Anthony
SAINT ANTHONY, the seat of Fremont County, Idaho, and the headquarters of the Yellowstone Stake of Zion, is situated on Henry’s Fork of Snake River, on the Yellowstone branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, 11 miles north of Rexburg, 55 miles south of the west entrance to the Yellowstone National Park, and 222 miles by railroad northeast of Salt Lake City. St. Anthony is the commercial center of an extensive upland consisting of farming and ranching districts. Ecclesiastically the saints of St. Anthony are organized into two bishop’s wards, viz., St. Anthony 1st and St. Anthony 2nd wards. These two wards had together a total membership of 1,319, including 214 children on Dec. 31, 1930. The total population of the two St. Anthony precincts was 3,168 in 1930, of which 2,778 resided in the city of St. Anthony.
St. Anthony, destined to become a place of importance, was first located by non-Mormons in 1888, but soon afterwards a few families of Latter-day Saints settled there, and a L. D. S. Sunday school was organized May 3, 1896, at St. Anthony, the saints from the beginning belonging to the Parker Ward. When the state of Idaho created the new county of Fremont from a part of Bingham County, St. Anthony was chosen as the county seat. This caused people from all directions to flock into town, which at once was boosted into a place of importance. As the L. D. S. population in St. Anthony increased, they were organized into a regular bishop’s ward July 21, 1901, with William Henry Carbine as Bishop. He was succeeded in 1908 by James E. Fogg, who in 1909 was succeeded by Arnold D. Miller, who in 1916 was succeeded by Willard W. Spiers, who presided until June 5, 1921, when the St. Anthony Ward was divided into two wards, namely, the St. Anthony 1st and the St. Anthony 2nd wards.
Saint Anthony 1st Ward
SAINT ANTHONY 1ST WARD, Yellowstone Stake, Fremont Co., Idaho, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in that part of the city of St. Anthony and vicinity lying north of Snake River and contains the greater part of the business center of the city.
Willard W. Spiers was chosen as Bishop of the St. Anthony 1st Ward. He was succeeded in 1925 by E. Moroni Jorgensen, who in 1928 was succeeded by Philemon M. Kelley, who presided Dec. 31, 1930. On that date the St. Anthony 1st Ward had 724 members, including 105 children.