will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own." Whitney prepared a biography of Lorenzo Snow, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, for publication in 1890. However it was not published at that time. It was entitled, Latter Leaves in the Life of Lorenzo Snow. In 2012, Dennis B. Horne published an edited and expanded version of this work under the same title with Cedar Fort, Inc., of Springville, Utah. This work covered the Snow's life from 1885 to 1889 and was written as a continuation of Snow's sister, Eliza R. Snow's, work Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow. In publishing this work, Horne included Whitney's work as the first nine chapters of his book and then covered the following 11 years of Snow's life. Horne's published record only included about a third of Whitney's manuscript of his history of Lorenzo Snow. Publications include: The Life of Heber C. Kimball (1888) Poetical Writings (1889–90) History of Utah (4 Volumes) Elias: An Epic of the Ages (1904) Love and the Light: An Idyll of the Westland (1918) LDS Church service In 1905, two members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles resigned over a dispute regarding the 1890 Manifesto, which prohibited any further plural marriages within the church. John W. Taylor disagreed with the Manifesto entirely; Matthias F. Cowley felt that it should apply only to the United States. In February of the next year, Marriner W. Merrill died, which left three vacancies in the quorum. At a general conference of the church on April 8, 1906, Whitney was called as an apostle, along with George F. Richards and David O. McKay. Death and legacy Whitney died in Salt Lake City after being hospitalized for influenza. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. Whitney is the namesake of the community of Whitney, Idaho. See also LDS fiction Whitney Awards References External links The Divinity of Jesus Christ: Elder Orson F. Whitney 1855 births 1931 deaths 19th-century American male writers 19th-century American poets 19th-century Mormon missionaries American Latter Day Saint hymnwriters American Latter Day Saint writers American Mormon missionaries in the United Kingdom American general authorities (LDS Church) American male non-fiction writers American male poets Apostles (LDS Church) Brigham Young College faculty Burials at Salt Lake City Cemetery Deaths from influenza Editors of Latter Day Saint publications Infectious disease deaths in Utah Latter Day Saint poets Latter Day