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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: June 08, 2019 08:48PM

Digging through some old family papers found this for 1924

Net increase in church membership from 1901 to 1914 129,493

There were 739 wards and 33 branches
68 stakes and 21 missions
1316 elders and 115 women missionaries (they do not use the term sister missionaries, just women)
Birth rate 39.5 per 1000
14,717 children blessed
Death rate 8.3 per thousand
marriage rate 17 per thousand

4 temples in operation
166,909 baptisms for the living and the dead (interesting phrase)
72,952 endowments for the living and the dead

Church membership in this article is listed as 74,432 families.

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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: June 08, 2019 08:49PM

Sorry this is for 1914 not 1924

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Posted by: redskittle ( )
Date: June 09, 2019 05:41PM

I wonder how rich the church was in 1914?

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Posted by: Jordan ( )
Date: June 09, 2019 08:03PM

redskittle Wrote:
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> I wonder how rich the church was in 1914?

Surprisingly, nothing like today. It had only gotten out of the red a mere seven years before. Since debt was a recent memory, they would have been very careful how they spent money.

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Posted by: tumwater ( )
Date: June 09, 2019 09:15PM

Does anyone have the most recent data for the same categories?

I'm sure I could dig in the lds websites, but I feel lazy too make the effort.

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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: June 09, 2019 10:07PM

These were snippets going up to the mid 50s when this particular relative passed away.

I thought some might like to see them.

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