"Born in Denmark, 1846. Local mission, 1865-68. To Salt Lake City, 1868. Moved to Mt. Pleasant with wife, 1869. Ordained seventy, 1876. Northwestern States Mission, 1879-80. Elected mayor of Mt. Pleasant, 1884, 1886, 1888. High priest and counselor in bishopric, 1886. Manager of two stores. Bishop, 1888. President of Scandinavian Mission, 1896-98. Lorenzo Snow manifesto regarding polygamy, 1898. President of North Sanpete Stake, 1900. Copies into diary White Horse prophecy as he received it in 1904. Ordained patriarch, 1915." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies]