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Harold G. Hillam
Harold Gordon Hillam (September 1, 1934 – March 27, 2012) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1990 until his death. Hillam was the fifteenth general president of the LDS Church's Sunday School (LDS Church), Sunday School organization from 1995 to 2000 and was Temple president, president of the Boise Idaho Temple from 2005 to 2008. Hillam was born in Sugar City, Idaho, Sugar City, Idaho. As a young man, he was an Mormon missionary, LDS Church missionary in Brazil. Hillam received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. Hillam was later trained as a dentist and an orthodontist at Northwestern University. He practiced orthodontics in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In 1981, Hillam was Calling (LDS Church), called as Mission president, president of the LDS Church's Portugal Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon Mission (LDS Church), Mission. In 1990, he became a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, and a year later was transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar City, Idaho
Sugar City is a city in Madison County, Idaho, United States. The population was 1,715 at the 2020 census, up from 1,514 in 2010. It is part of the Rexburg Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Sugar City was a company town for the Fremont County Sugar Company, which was part of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, supporting a sugar beet processing factory built in 1903–1904. Since it was created to support the factory, construction workers and early factory families were housed in tents, leading to the nickname "Rag Town". By 1904, the town consisted of 35 houses, two stores, a hotel, an opera house, several boarding houses, two lumber yards, a meat market, and a schoolhouse. The first Mormon ward was the Sugar City Ward, with Bishop Mark Austin. One of his counselors was James Malone, a construction engineer for E. H. Dyer, who was not a Mormon. In early years the factory had a labor shortage, leading to a local community of ''Nikkei''—Japanese migrants and their descendant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |