Bateman Haight Wilhelm
From WilhelmWiki
(→Biography) |
(→The United Order) |
||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
===The United Order=== | ===The United Order=== | ||
| - | The unit of the United Order which became Orderville was formed March 20, 1874 at Mt. Carmel, Utah, with Bateman H. Williams listed as one of the original members of the board of directors. In early 1875, it was decided to move site two miles up the Long Valley and the name Orderville was chosen. | + | The unit of the United Order which became Orderville was formed March 20, 1874 at Mt. Carmel, Utah, with Bateman H. Williams listed as one of the original members of the board of directors. In early [[1875]], it was decided to move site two miles up the Long Valley and the name Orderville was chosen. In March of that year, Bateman's family was the first of the United Order members to move to [[Orderville, Utah]]. |
| - | + | Bateman continued to serve on United Order's board of directors, and was elected to 1st Vice-President of the board on July 14th, 1875 and on August 2 of the same year he was chosen to serve as 2nd counselor on the Orderville ward's bishopric until he resigned from the bishopric on September 8, 1877. | |
| - | + | ||
| - | + | ||
| + | The Order owned a water-powered sawmill which Bateman and Israel Hoyt ran, and later it was replaced by a steam-powered sawmill, which was run by Bateman and Isaiah Bowers. | ||
| + | Orderville was reorganized into an ecclesiastical ward on October 5, 1877, at which time Bateman was re-elected to the board of directors as 2nd Vice-President, a position he likely held until he withdrew his holdings from the Order, and heeded the call to colonize Arizona. | ||
===Colonizing Arizona=== | ===Colonizing Arizona=== | ||
