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The impressive Manti Temple, in the final stage of construction, towers above a group of simple Mormon dwellings in this George Edward Anderson photograph, Nicholas G. Morgan Collection, Utah State Historical Society.
William Harrison Folsom: Pioneer Architect BY PAUL L. ANDERSON
y y HEN WILLIAM HARRISON FOLSOM peacefully died at midnight on March 19, 1901, just six days short of his eighty-sixth birthday, he brought to a close a lifetime that had been anything but uneventful. A New England-born convert to the Latter-day Saint church, he left a record of experience that reads like a summary of early Mormon history. He received baptism in an icy river, became personally acquainted with Joseph Smith, assisted in the building of the Nauvoo Temple, preached and electioneered for the church, fought in the Battle of Nauvoo, and suffered with the expelled Saints in Iowa in the winter of 1846. Although hanged by an anti-Mormon mob, he lived to take part in the California
