Henry Green Boyle (March 7, 1824 – September 8, 1902) was the first president of the Southern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Boyle was born in Bluestone, Tazewell County, Virginia. He converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1843 after hearing of the church from Jedediah M. Grant. He then served a mission in Virginia, before moving to Nauvoo in 1845.
Boyle was then a member of the Mormon Battalion. He then reenlisted in Los Angeles and then was the head of a group that in the spring of 1848 blazed a wagon trail from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. In 1851 he moved to San Bernardino, California. From 1853 until 1857 Boyle served as a missionary in northern California. Among those he baptized during this time was William B. Preston. He returned to Utah in 1857.
From 1867 to 1869 he served as a missionary in Virginia and North Carolina, leading a large group to Utah when returned in 1869. He was made president of the new Southern States Mission at the start of 1876 serving until 1878. He was succeeded as mission president by Union Army Civil War Veteran, John Hamilton Morgan.
Joseph Wilford Booth (1866–1928) was an American missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and educator in the early 20th-century.
Booth was born in Alpine, Utah Territory. He attended Brigham Young Academy, he then became a school teacher. He married Mary Rebecca "Reba" Moyle in the Logan Utah Temple in 1890. Booth served his first mission to the Ottoman Empire from 1898 until 1902. He returned as a missionary in 1903, this time accompanied by his wife. He was later mission president there from 1904 until 1909. He tried to start missionary work in Greece in 1905. After returning to Utah he resumed his work as a school teacher.
Booth again served as mission president starting in 1921, although the mission headquarters were later moved to Syria. His wife did not join him until 1924. Most of those who converted to Mormonism were Armenians, although some Greeks and Arabs were also converted. He died while serving as mission president in 1928.
In 1925, Booth wrote a book entitled Come Listen to A Prophet's Voice.
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