In a revelation given through Joseph, the Seer, at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838, the Lord said to him: "Let my servant John Taylor, and also my servant John E. Page, and also my servant Wilford Woodruff, and also my servant Willard Richards, be appointed to fill the places of those who have fallen, and be officially notified of their appointments." When Frederick G. Williams was rejected from the First Presidency, on the 7th of November, 1837, at Far West, Hyrum Smith was appointed a counselor in his stead, which position he occupied until called to officiate as Patriarch to the church, after the death of his father, Joseph Smith, Sen., which occurred in Nauvoo, September 14, 1840, when William Law was appointed counselor to the Prophet Joseph in Hyrum's stead. This office Wm. Law occupied until the assassination of the Prophet and Patriarch, which occurred June 27, 1844, at Carthage, Illinois. The First Presidency and Twelve Apostles as they stood in Nauvoo, after the apostacy of Luke S. Johnson, William E. McLellin, John F. Boynton, Lyman E. Johnson, Thomas B Marsh and Frederick G. Williams, and the ordination of Hyrum Smith to the office of Patriarch, were: FIRST PRESIDENCY. Joseph Smith, Jun., Sidney Rigdon, William Law. TWELVE APOSTLES. 1. Brigham Young, 2. Heber C. Kimball, 3. Parley P. Pratt, 4. Orson Pratt, 5. Orson Hyde, 6. William Smith, 7. John Taylor, 8. John E. Page, 9. Wilford Woodruff, 10. Willard Richards, 11. George A. Smith, 12. Lyman Wight. At a General Conference, held on December 27, 1847, at Kanesville, (now Council Bluffs,) Iowa, the Saints acknowledged Brigham Young President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards his Counselors. This action was confirmed at the General Conference, held in Salt Lake Valley, after the companies had arrived in the Fall of 1848. In Salt Lake City, February, 1849, after the assassination of the Prophet Joseph, the apostacy of Sidney Rigdon, William Law, William Smith, John E. Page and Lyman Wight, the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles stood as follows: FIRST PRESIDENCY. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards. TWELVE APOSTLES. 1. Orson Hyde, 2. Parley P. Pratt, 3. Orson Pratt, 4. John Taylor, 5. Wilford Woodruff, 6. George A. Smith, 7. Amasa M. Lyman, 8. Ezra T. Benson, 9. Charles C. Rich, 10. Lorenzo Snow, 11. Erastus Snow, 12. Franklin D. Richards. After the death of Counselor Willard Richards, March 11, 1854, President B. Young nominated, and the church sustained Jedediah M. Grant, at the General Conference April 6, 1854, as his second counselor. Elder Grant filled this office until his death, at Salt Lake City, December 1, 1856. He was born in Windsor, Broome County, New York, February 21, 1816.