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.
redskittle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 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.