William Jefferies, Jr.

William Jefferies, Jr. was an English Mormon pioneer and early settler of the American frontier. He was educated privately in England, joined the Church there in 1856, served for a time as a missionary, and emigrated to Utah in 1856, crossing the plains in Joseph W. Young's company. He located in Grantsville, Utah as tithing clerk upon arriving in Utah, and later was involved in other endeavors there.^[1] Jefferies was one of the leading men in Grantsville in the later half of the 19th-century, involved in almost all business ventures in that city and served as one of its earliest mayors. ^[2]

References

1. Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah (Salt Lake City: Cannon & Sons, 1892)
2. Esshom, Frank Ellwood (1913), "Jefferies, William", Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, p. 959, OCLC 2286984