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Today, the BYU Family History Library is located on level 2 of the Harold B. Lee Library. It is staffed with librarians, student employees, and family history missionaries. [7] These volunteer missionaries help visitors to the BYU FHL conduct research using the FHL's online and print resources.
Harold Bingham Lee (March 28, 1899 – December 26, 1973) was an American religious leader and educator who served as the 11th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from July 1972 until his death in December 1973.
The First Presidency is reorganized, with Harold B. Lee as president, N. Eldon Tanner as First Counselor, and Marion G. Romney as Second Counselor. Spencer W. Kimball becomes President of the Quorum. 12 October 1972 Bruce R. McConkie added to the Quorum. 26 December 1973 Harold B. Lee dies. 30 December 1973
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However, on December 26, 1973, Harold B. Lee, who was four years younger than Kimball and had previously been in much better health, unexpectedly died, leaving Kimball as the most senior apostle and thus the presumptive new church president. [65]
The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is the special collections department of Brigham Young University (BYU)'s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1957 with 1,000 books and 50 manuscript collections, as of 2016 the Library's special collections contained over 300,000 books, 11,000 manuscript collections, and over 2.5 million ...
Colonel Richard Lee "the Founder" of the family in North America Thomas Lee (1690–1750), Virginia colonist and cofounder of the Ohio Company. Richard Henry Lee (1732–1794) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and served as the president of the Continental Congress.
Joseph Fielding Smith, McConkie's father-in-law, who had been serving as church president, died on July 2, 1972. The First Presidency was subsequently reorganized with Harold B. Lee as president, leaving a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In October 1972, McConkie was invited to Lee's office "where President Lee put his arms around ...