John Pack (May 20, 1809 – April 4, 1885) was a member of the Council of Fifty and a missionary in the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Pack was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He married his first wife, Julia Ives, in 1832 in Watertown, New York. In 1836, Pack wasbaptized a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.[1]
Pack moved to Kirtland, Ohio, then to Missouri, and then to Nauvoo, Illinois. He was a member of the Nauvoo Legion holding the rank of Captain.[2] Pack also served as a policeman in Nauvoo.[3]
Pack was in the first company of Mormon pioneers to cross the plains with Brigham Young. He held the ranks of Captain of Fifty in the company as well as Colonel in its military organization.[4] At the time of Joseph Smith's death, Pack was serving as a missionary in New Jersey with Ezra T. Benson.[5]
The University of Deseret, the predecessor of the University of Utah, began in the home of John Pack.[6]
Pack served with John Taylor as one of the first Mormon missionaries in France beginning in 1849. Pack was in this mission until 1852, but he spent most of his time preaching in the Channel Islands.[7]
In 1860, Pack and his eldest son, Ward Eaton Pack, built the first sawmill in Kamas, Utah Territory.[8]
Wives of John Pack[edit]
- Married his first wife Julia Ives on October 10, 1832 in Watertown, New York
- Married his second wife Ruth Mosher in March 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois
- Married his third wife Nancy Aurelia Boothe on January 21, 1846 in Nauvoo, Illinois
- Married his fourth wife Eliza Jane Graham on October 14, 1849 in Nauvoo, Illinois
- Married his fifth wife Mary Jane Walker on September 15, 1852 in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Married his sixth wife Jessie Bell Stirling on January 16, 1864 in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Married his seventh wife Lucy Jane Giles on May 2, 1865 in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Married his eighth wife Jane Robison on July 20, 1870
Descendants[edit]
Ward Eaton Pack, one of Pack's sons, twice served as president of the Hawaiian Mission of the LDS Church. He also served in the presidency of the Cache Stake, which covered all of Cache County, Utah and into Wyoming at the time. Ward Eaton's daughter, Grace, married Charles A. Callis, who was later a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Another one of John Pack's sons, Frederick J. Pack, was a prominent professor at the University of Utah.
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