Erastus Fairbanks Snow
Missionary, Founder of St. George,
President of the Cotton Mission
Erastus Snow was born in St. Johnsbury,
Vermont, in 1818. He entered the Salt lake
Valley on July 21, 1847, in advance of the
first company of Mormon Pioneers. He was
ordained an Apostle at the age of thirty. As
a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints, he crossed the Great
Plains sevn times and published the first
foreign translation of the Book of Mormon
in Denmark in 1850. Elder Snow presided
over the Cotton Mission from 1861 to 1888
and supervised the construction of the
St. George Temple and Tabernacle.
This monument is dedicated to
Elder Snow's leadership and the great
sacrifice of the Cotton Mission Pioneers
May 24, 1997
