Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Augustus BRINGHURST
Bishop William A. Bringhurst was born at Lionville, Chester Co., Pa., Jan. 26, 1839. Removed with his parents to the city of Nauvoo in the State of Illinois, in the year 1845, they having become members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints previous to moving west. In 1847 the family, consisting of father, mother and three children, crossed the plains, traveling one thousand miles to Salt Lake Valley in a wagon drawn by three yokes of cattle, the trip lasting all summer. They arrived in the valley in September of that year, having endured many hardships and privations consequant upon such a journey. William A. Bringhurst, during the early settlement of the country in common with the community, endured many privations and hardships caused by scarcity of food and clothing; starvation stared them in the face, but through the mercy of the Lord they were preserved. During his boyhood days his time was spent herding cattle in the summer and attending school in the winter. His chances for obtaining an education were limited, having to labor almost continuously for the support of the family. At the age of sixteen he entered his father's shop and learned the wheelwright trade. In the spring of 1862 he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer, when a call was made by President Lincoln upon Governor Young for a company of volunteers to suppress Indian troubles east of Salt Lake, in which service he continued until the company was disbanded on the 9th of August, 1862. Early in life he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, by Apostie John Taylor. In the spring of 1866 he removed from Salt Lake City to Toquerville, Utah, a distance of 300 miles, and engaged in the mercantile business, which he still follows. On the 15th of February, 1874, he was ordained to the office of bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which office he continues to hold, presiding in the town of Toquerville. Considerable of his life has been spent upon the frontier, where continual vigilance was the price of safety from hostile bands of Indians.
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