Mönch, Louis F.

LDS. German-born American, 1847–1916. The eleventh of sixteen children in an indigent family, he emigrated with his father to America at age ten. He worked as a tanner but was determined to gain an education. He took night classes in Chicago and eventually entered Bryant Stratton College. He departed by wagon to seek a teaching position in California, but he went no farther than Salt Lake City, Utah; the kindness of the woman who gave him shelter there after he lost goods and wagon in a fire so impressed him that eventually he became a Latter-day Saint. Encouraged by Lorenzo Snow and Franklin D. Richards, he became superintendent of Weber County Schools. After a mission in Germany, he became founder and principal of Weber Stake Academy.

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