Person:Miles Romney (1)

Miles and his wife Elizabeth converted to Mormonism in 1837 in Preston, England. They emigrated with their family in 1841 aboard the Sheffield after Joseph Smith called Mormons to gather in the United States. They landed at New Orleans and sailed up the Mississippi to Nauvoo, Illinois. Miles was a builder and worked on the Nauvoo temple. After the Mormons were driven from Nauvoo, his family followed in 1850, moving to Salt Lake City. Miles was foreman of a public work near the site of the Salt Lake City Temple, and supervised the first laying of its foundation. After a mission in England, he was called to southern Utah, and he moved his family to St. George. There he was superintendent of public works and worked on the St. George Temple and Tabernacle.

Miles had nine children, and their descendants include prominent officials in the Mormon church, as well as Michigan Governor George W. Romney, and his son Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Gibbons, Daniel. A Gathering of Eagles: Conversions from the Four Quarters of the Earth [1]
   p. 245-47.

   Citing Romney, Thomas Cottam. Life Story of Miles P. Romney and Miner, Caroline Eyring. Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell Romney and Family.

2. ↑ Pratt-Romney family, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

   "Miles Romney (1806-1877) was born in Dalton-in-Furness, County of Lancaster, on July 13, 1806. He was the son of George Romney and Sarah King and married November 16, 1830 to Elizabeth Gaskell at Dalton-in-Furness. He was the father of Miles Park Romney and was a convert to the LDS Church. Romney died in St. George, Utah on May 3, 1877. He was an architect and designed the St. George Tabernacle and Brigham Young Winter Home and Office, the latter with his son, Miles Park Romney."

3. ↑ Photo of tombstone, in Find A Grave
   [2].
4.   Wikipedia cites for this passage the Gibbons book, but the birth dates differ. The tombstone appears to say the 13th.