Elijah Binam Gregory (1883-1949)

"GREGORY, Elijah Binam, Bishop of Famington Ward, Davis Co., Utah, was born Feb. 7, 1883, at Bairdstown, Lamar County, Texas, a son of Samuel L. Gregory and Lydia A. Myers.

"He was baptized Dec. 26, 1896, by John Wood, ordained a Deacon in the fall of 1900 at Massey, Oklahoma, by President James G. Duffin of the Southwestern States Mission, and ordained a Priest, Jan. 21, 1905, by Jacob Miller at Farmington, Utah. Brother Gregory was ordained an Elder, May 10, 1909, by James Wm. Walker, and filled a mission to the Central States from 1909 to 1911. He was ordained a Seventy, nov. 17, 1913, by Amasa L. Clark and served as one of the presidents of the 56th quorum of Seventy from 1918 to 1929. He was ordained a High Priest, Nov. 26, 1929, by Edw. B. Clark, and a Bishop by Apostle Rudger Clawson, Jan. 25, 1931, and set apart to preside over the Farmington Ward. Elder Gregory served as an officer and class leader in various quorums of the Priesthood and auxiliary organizations with which he was associated from his youth and acted as chorister of the Farmington Ward from 1918 to 1931.

"In civil life Elder Gregory served as city councilman two terms, and as director, and at present, as president of the Miller Floral Company of Farmington. In 1912 he married Julia Ellen Tree in the Salt Lake Temple. This marriage has been blessed with seven children namely, Frederick Levi, born Sept. 24, 1913; Julia Fern, born Sept. 9, 1915; Rulon Wells, born Sept. 22, 1918; LeGrande E., born Sept. 30, 1921; Harold Lamar, born Nov. 9, 1923; Helen Ruth, born May 2, 1926, and died Feb. 27, 1930; Dorothy Mae, born Aug. 16, 1931."