The Ex U.S. President and the Missionary

 

U.S President John Tyler

Elder Karl G. Maeser [eventually became the first principle of Brigham Young Academy] was able to finance his mission because ex U.S. President Tyler asked him to teach his daughters what?

a.      Science

b.      Math

c.       Piano

d.      Horse riding

Yesterday’s answer:

A)     The whereabouts of his missing oxen

The following from James Little:

   “In the spring of 1850 I felt like making an effort to gather with the Saints in the mountains. This at first appeared impossible, as my animals had all strayed off, and I could not learn of their whereabouts.

   “I had concluded to remain another year, when I dreamed, for three nights in succession, where my oxen were, and went and got them. I found my other lost animals in the same manner.”

James A. Little, Jacob Hamblin in Three Mormon Classics, Preston Nibley, comp. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988), 217-218.