Essentials in Church History / A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"

by Joseph Fielding Smith

Newel K. Whitney

Born Feb. 5, 1795, at Marlborough, Windham County, Vermont; called by revelation to be the first bishop of Kirtland; sustained as presiding bishop of the Church at the conference of April, 1847; died Sept. 23, 1850, at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Edward Hunter

Born June 22, 1793, at Newton, Delaware County, Penn.; called and sustained as the presiding bishop of the Church April 7, 1851; ordained and set apart April 11, 1852, at Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 58; died Oct. 16, 1883, at Salt Lake City, Utah.

William B. Preston

Born Nov. 24, 1830, at Halifax, Franklin County, Virginia; ordained a bishop Nov. 14, 1859; set apart as presiding bishop of the Church April 6, 1884, at Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 53; died Aug. 2, 1908, at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Charles W. Nibley

Born Feb. 5, 1849, at Hunterfield, Midlothian, Scotland; ordained and set apart as presiding bishop of the Church Dec. 11, 1907, at Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of 58.

Appendix: Stakes of Zion

(In chronological order.) * = discontinued.