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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 1 Page: 3 (~1830)

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3 On Monday, February 17, 1873, Elder Samuel Powers, of the Quorum of Twelve, died at Beloit, Wisconsin.

Of him the editor of the Herald wrote:

Bro. Samuel Powers, of Beloit, Wisconsin, of the Quorum of Twelve, passed over the river of death into the spirit land on Monday, the 17th of February (as we suppose), and his mortal remains were laid away in the cold, still repose of the grave, on the 19th.

How sternly does death gather in the loved, the trusted, tried, and true. How pitilessly he takes father, mother, brother, sister, wife, husband, and friend, leaving aching hearts to cherish sad memories of those gone before.

We received a telegram to attend his obsequies, but were prevented from doing so, which we can only regret.

Bro. Powers was one of the best and ablest men of the church, or in the northwest. A man full of the tenderest solicitude for the good of the human race; loving and kind. His rest must needs be glorious.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 20, p. 146.

The European Mission conference was held in Birmingham, England, April 5, 6, and 7, M. H. Forscutt presiding; C. H. Caton, E. Taylor, and W. Taylor clerks. In addition to routine and local work a letter was read from President Joseph Smith authorizing the organization of the Fourth Quorum of Elders in the European Mission.

The president of the conference then decided as Elder J. S. Patterson was a member of the presidency of the First Quorum of Elders that he was authorized to organize this quorum. Elder Patterson proceeded to do so. Elder Thomas Taylor was ordained president of the Fourth Quorum of Elders, Charles Crump his counselor.

The General Annual Conference met at Plano, Illinois, April 6, 1873, Joseph Smith president; W. H. Kelley, Duncan Campbell, and A. H. Smith secretaries. The first two days and part of the third were taken up with reports and routine work. On the 8th, the committee appointed at April conference of 1872 on the case of John Shippy reported in detail, the substance of which was that his baptism and ordination were legal though unwise acts, but expressed the opinion "that it would be a wise and prudent act in said John Shippy to refrain from all public ministerial labor" until disabilities were removed. The conference

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