For a time, was the only educater of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah.
Converted in Germany while investigating anti-Mormon literature, his entire family was baptized. While emigrating to America he was asked to stay a year in England to help the missionary work among German emigrants there. After reaching America, in Council Bluffs, Iowa; he secured a wagon and oxen and made the great trek to the Rocky Mountains.
The fame of Professor Maeser as a teacher spread throughout the community, he taught school in a Church meeting house for several years until he was called by the First Presidency to undertake a mission to Switzerland and Germany. Upon his return to Utah, He also taught classes in the Deseret University. Eventually Brigham Young called him to Provo, to begin teaching at the recently constructed Brigham Young Academy. He is still regarded as one of the greatest educator's in United States history.
Converted in Germany while investigating anti-Mormon literature, his entire family was baptized. While emigrating to America he was asked to stay a year in England to help the missionary work among German emigrants there. After reaching America, in Council Bluffs, Iowa; he secured a wagon and oxen and made the great trek to the Rocky Mountains.
The fame of Professor Maeser as a teacher spread throughout the community, he taught school in a Church meeting house for several years until he was called by the First Presidency to undertake a mission to Switzerland and Germany. Upon his return to Utah, He also taught classes in the Deseret University. Eventually Brigham Young called him to Provo, to begin teaching at the recently constructed Brigham Young Academy. He is still regarded as one of the greatest educator's in United States history.
For a time, was the only educater of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah.
Converted in Germany while investigating anti-Mormon literature, his entire family was baptized. While emigrating to America he was asked to stay a year in England to help the missionary work among German emigrants there. After reaching America, in Council Bluffs, Iowa; he secured a wagon and oxen and made the great trek to the Rocky Mountains.
The fame of Professor Maeser as a teacher spread throughout the community, he taught school in a Church meeting house for several years until he was called by the First Presidency to undertake a mission to Switzerland and Germany. Upon his return to Utah, He also taught classes in the Deseret University. Eventually Brigham Young called him to Provo, to begin teaching at the recently constructed Brigham Young Academy. He is still regarded as one of the greatest educator's in United States history.
Converted in Germany while investigating anti-Mormon literature, his entire family was baptized. While emigrating to America he was asked to stay a year in England to help the missionary work among German emigrants there. After reaching America, in Council Bluffs, Iowa; he secured a wagon and oxen and made the great trek to the Rocky Mountains.
The fame of Professor Maeser as a teacher spread throughout the community, he taught school in a Church meeting house for several years until he was called by the First Presidency to undertake a mission to Switzerland and Germany. Upon his return to Utah, He also taught classes in the Deseret University. Eventually Brigham Young called him to Provo, to begin teaching at the recently constructed Brigham Young Academy. He is still regarded as one of the greatest educator's in United States history.
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