Tokyo 2009
On the Morning of September 1, 1901 four missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints humbly gathered to dedicate Japan "for the proclamation of the truth and for the bringing to pass of the purposes of the Lord."One of those missionaries was cousin Horace Samuel ENSIGN (1871-1944).
Horace Samuel ENSIGN and George Ensign SMITH are 2nd cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Isaac ENSIGN Revolutionary War Veteran and his wife Lydia NOBLE.
Lark's children and Horace Samuel ENSIGN are 2nd cousins 4 times removed.
My cousin Lincoln and his wife recently returned from a visit to Japan where he had served an LDS mission. Their photos of the 1901 missionary monument began a search for information on cousin Horace S. Ensign (1871-1944). I had a very nice phone visit with Myrle while we found the following information.
Horace Datus Ensign (our grandfather) and Samuel Ensign were brothers. Their father’s name was Isaac Ensign. They both arrived in Nauvoo after Joseph Smith was martyred in June of l844. They joined the church about l842 or 43 in Hartford Conneticut. They moved to Nauvoo from Hartford Connecticut where the Ensigns’ were some of the founders of that City. They moved with the exodus from Nauvoo and Horace Datus died of the ‘Black Canker’ in Winter Quarters. Samuel, his brother, brought Horace Datus’s wife, Mary Bronson and the children on to Salt Lake City with his family arriving September of l847. Samuel Ensign had a son named Horace Sobreski Ensign and a grandson named after him, Horace Samuel Ensign. [ Samuel died while working on the SLC temple in an accidental fall from the Temple wall.]
(See: Ensigns in america: Descendants of James Esnign and his wife Sarah Elson, by Martha Eunice Ensign Nelson.)
Horace Samuel ENSIGN
Birth: Nov. 10, 1871 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah.
Death: Aug. 29, 1944 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah.
Son of Horace Sobreski Ensign and Martha Triplett
Married Mary Linda Whitney, 21 Jun 1894, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Married Ara Elizabeth Hunsaker, 24 Jan 1918, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
President of the Japan Mission.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir: For many years he was a member of the Tabernacle Choir and made several trips with that organization as a soloist. Evan Stephens, Director (1890-1916), with Horace S. Ensign, assistant.
Later he made his home in Wichita, Kansas, where he still resided in 1936.
(Japanese saints: Mormons in the land of the rising sun By John Patrick Hoffmann) Introduction
pg.1On September 1, 1901, four men stood on a small hill overlooking Yokahama and dedicated the nation of Japan for missionary work. Elder Heber J. Grant, who was to later become the seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), prayed to God that Satan would release his hold on the minds of the Japanese people and that they might be prepared to recongnize the truth that he and his companions offered. Elder Grant and these companions, Louis A. Kelsche, Horace S. Ensign, and nineteen-year-old Alma O. Taylor, were sent by the leaders of the LDS Church to open another Asian nation to the spirited proselytizing efforts of what has emerged in the insuing years as one of the fastest growing religious bodies in the world... Early 1901
pg.24
Over the next several months, [Heber J.] grant, who had never before served a fulltime mission for the Church, selected two experienced men to accompany him to Japan: twenty-nine-year-old Horace S. Ensign, who had recently returned from a mission to colorado and had previousley served as Gran't secretary; and Louis A. Kelsch, who had served several mission for the LDS Church, most recently in Chicago. A third companion was eighteen-year-old Alma O. Taylor, who lived near Gran't home and worked in his family's undertaking business. None of the "Japanese Quartet," as they were known, spoke any Japanese, although Alma Taylor immediately acquired a Japanese language book and began to study Buddhist Philosophy.
(Japan Mission, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 4 by Andrew Jenson)
Presidents: Heber J. Grant, 1901-1903; Horace Samuel Ensign, 1903-1908; Alma O. Taylor, 1908-1910; Elbert D. Thomas, 1910-1912; Heber Grant Ivins, 1912-1915; Joseph Henry Stimpson, 1915-1921; Lloyd Ivie, 1921-1923; Hilton A. Robertson, 1923-1924. The mission was closed in June, 1924.... Ensign » 1984 » September - name Horace S. Ensign found in article
Horace Samuel Ensign (1871-1944), Heber J. Grant, Alma O. Taylor, and Louis A. Kelsch.Religious Education Image Archive
Title A Mission Call to Japan
Contributor Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Mays, Kenneth R.
Description The missionaries called to open Japan for the preaching of the gospel. Left to right: Horace S. Ensign, Heber J. Grant, Alma O. Taylor, and Louis A. Kelsch. Elder Grant was called to preside over the mission. Photograph taken in Salt Lake City in 1901. Publisher Original Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Date Original 1901
Publisher Digital Brigham Young University. Dept. of Religious Education; Brigham Young University. Harold B. Lee Library
Date Digital 2004-05
Edition Electronic reproduction
Genre Photographs
Collection Religious Education LDS Church History and Doctrine
Owning Institution Brigham Young University.
Title Heber J. Grant and the Japanese Mission
Contributor Mays, Kenneth R.
Description This image shows Elder Heber J. Grant and some of his associates in Japan at the time Elder Grant presided over the Japanese Mission. Elder Grant, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, dedicated Japan for the preaching of the gospel in September 1901. He returned from Japan in September 1903.
Publisher Original Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Publisher Digital Brigham Young University. Harold B. Lee Library
Edition Electronic reproduction
Genre Photographs
Collection Religious Education LDS Church History and Doctrine;
Owning Institution Brigham Young University
Second Row end Horace Samuel Ensign (1871-1944) next to Heber J. GrantReligious Education Image Archive
Title Heber J. Grant and the Japanese Mission ContributorMays, Kenneth R.
Description This image shows Elder Heber J. Grant and some of his associates in Japan at the time Elder Grant presided over the Japanese Mission. Elder Grant, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, dedicated Japan for the preaching of the gospel in September 1901. He returned from Japan in September 1903.
Publisher Original Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Publisher Digital Brigham Young University. Harold B. Lee Library
Edition Electronic reproduction
Genre Photographs
Collection Religious Education LDS Church History and Doctrine;
Owning Institution Brigham Young University
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