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| Daniel Hanmer Wells was born in New York in 1814. He settled in the small village of Commerce, Illinois, later to become Nauvoo; there he was elected constable and then justice of the peace and was a military officer. He was a great friend to the Saints as they fled from persecution in Missouri. After the martyrdom, he continued to defend his friends; when the Saints were driven from Nauvoo, he decided to join them and was baptized in August of 1846. In 1848 he crossed to Utah. He was called to serve as a counselor to Brigham Young in 1857, and continued in that position until Pres. Young's death in 1877, when he was sustained as a counselor to the Twelve Apostles. | |||
