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Author: Alan K. Parrish
JOHN A. WIDTSOE •
ALAN K. PARRISH
In the glory days of Harvard University, a certain graduating student was given two honorary awards--one for demonstrating the greatest depth of knowledge, and one for displaying the greatest breadth of knowledge. That student was John A. Widtsoe, the immigrant son of a Norwegian schoolmaster and a fishermaiden.
As a scientist, he changed the face of the American West with his work in irrigation and dry farming. As a writer, he drew on both his remarkable intellect and his deep-seated faith to answer questions about the relationship of science and religion. As an educator, he solved problems and established programs whose influence is still felt today. As a Church leader, he advanced missionary work in Europe, strengthened members at home, and made enormous contributions to genealogy and temple work.
A champion of the Word of Wisdom and the Prophet Joseph Smith, he wrote ground-breaking books and was the editor of the Improvement Era for twenty years. His commitment to the Savior and the Church was absolute-he served in the Quorum of the Twelve for more than thirty years. Augmented with compelling photographs and extensive notes, this exhaustively researched and eminently readable biography tells the story an immigrant boy who first settled in a shanty house in Logan Utah, and rose to become university president and later an apostle of the Lord .
Pages 768
