I have known President Snow since before the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I know him well before the Prophet was martyred, and I knew he was a friend of the Prophet, a friend of the leaders of the Church, and a friend of God. Though but a boy, I recognized in this man a power that was born of the Holy Spirit. I have known his works since 1843, and no man that has been among us has been more thorough, more diligent, wiser in all his positions where he has been placed, and shown more integrity to the work, than President Lorenzo Snow. I love the man, and I loved his predecessors; and the grand work that has accomplished in the last three years will live in the history of the Church, showing forth the greatness and the executive and financial ability of the man. He will stand among the foremost of those who have inaugurated this great and glorious work of the latter-days…. For him there is a crown laid up that shall never fade.

LORENZO SNOW, born April 3, 1814 in Mantua, Ohio, was baptized a member of the Church June 1836. He was ordained an Elder in 1836 and filled missions in Ohio in 1837 and in Missouri in 1838. On July 17, 1840 he was ordained a Seventy and the next day a High Priest. His third mission was to Great Britain, at which time he presented to Queen Victoria a copy of the Book of Mormon, which is still in the library of Windsor Castle. He also served missions to Hawaii and Italy and caused the Book of Mormon to be translated into Italian. He was ordained an apostle February 21, 1849. He was sustained as President of the Council of the Twelve April 7, 1889 and as President of the Church October 13, 1998. He established the Latter-day Saints University. He revived the payment of tithing and laid the foundation for the financial strength of the Church. The Japanese Mission was opened during his administration. He died in Salt Lake City October 10, 1901.