| 665 J. M. Putney, Mark H. Forscutt, A. H. Smith, J. S. Roth, J. C. Crabb, H. N. Hanson, D. M. Rudd, W. E. Peak, Charles Derry, D. C. White, H. O. Smith, R. M. Elvin, Joshua Carlile, D. K. Dodson, E. L. Kelley, C. E. Butterworth, and John A. McIntosh. There were seventy-seven baptisms during this reunion.
September 28 Elder J. W. Wight wrote from Queensferry, New South Wales, of the progress of the ministerial work in Australia, and among other things said:
Some twenty-six have been baptized thus far this year in this mission, with four deaths and no expulsions. Bro. Butterworth has proved the Apollos in this direction, seventeen having been led into the water by him. Thus it will be seen that we are slowly gaining amidst all the turmoil.
On October 12 Elder E. C. Brand, senior president of Seventies, died at the house of Elder Alma Kent, Clay Center, Kansas. Elder Edmund Cameron Brand was born at Pimlico, London, Middlesex, England, February 22, 1822. He was educated at Homerton, near Hackney, London, England. He was baptized on July 29, 1851, and in 1853 he was ordained an elder. In November, 1854, he emigrated to Utah, and left there in 1860 with an escort of troops for California. On the 16th of December, 1863, he united with the Reorganization at San Francisco, California, being baptized by Elder T. J. Andrews and ordained an elder the same day. In March, 1864, he took his first mission, and continued with but little intermission in the missionary work until his death. On September 15, 1873, in accordance with the revelation presented to the General Conference of that year, he was ordained a seventy; and on the 18th of the same month set apart as a president of seventy. He traveled extensively in the missionary field, baptizing many, and was ever an energetic, zealous laborer in the vineyard, manifesting strong faith in the restored gospel. His remains were returned to his home, and buried in the Gaylord Cemetery, near Plum Hollow, Iowa.
On October 12 a church at Shenandoah, Iowa, was dedicated.
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