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- On March 24, 1904, the Pioneer Stake was organized from a division of
the Salt Lake Stake; William McLachlan, a pioneer of 1863 from Scotland,
was stake's first president.
- In 1930, Harold B. Lee, who would become the 11th president of the
Church, was called as stake president.
- The first Church welfare plan began in the Pioneer Stake when
approximately half of the stake's members were unemployed and unable to
find work. During President Lee's seven-year tenure, stake members provided
one of the first bishop's storehouses of the new era. Stake members went
into farming communities and assisted with harvest on a share basis; the
produce obtained was processed, bottled and distributed on the basis of
need. Out of this and other experiences in surrounding stakes came the
present Church Welfare Program, and President Lee assumed Churchwide
responsibilties as managing director of the Welfare Plan.
- In June 1955, Bishop Thomas S. Monson, who had served as bishop of the
6th-7th Ward since 1950, was sustained as second counselor in the stake
presidency.
- Pioneer stake presidents: William McLachlan, 1904-1916; Sylvester Q. Cannon, 1917-1925; D.E. Hammond, 1925-1930; Harold B. Lee, 1930-1937; Paul C. Child, 1937-1946; Fred H. Peck Jr., 1946-1953; Henry A. Smith, 1953-1955; Grant M. Burbidge, 1955-1961; Gerhardt Drechsel, 1961-1971; F. David Stanley, 1971-1980; Donald W. Hemingway, 1980-1988; Rey M. Miles, 1988-1997; Tracy L. Branch, 1997-present.
