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Heber J. Grant was born on 22 November 1856 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jedediah Morgan Grant and Rachel Ridgeway Ivins. He was ordained an apostle in the LDS Church in 1882 and then sustained as president in November 1918. Heber Jeddy Grant died on 14 May 1945.
The Heber J. Grant letters (1925, 1930) were written by Grant, then president of the LDS Church, to Oran Joseph Anderson regarding the Woodmen of the World Society and temple recommends. Also included are letters to Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Evans about a book gift.
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Letter dated 1925 was donated by John Sillito in 1983.
Letter dated 1930 was donated by Salt Lake City Public Library in 2010.
Processed by Nancy V. Young in 1984.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2013.