Henry Eyring (Mormon convert)

Henry Carlos Ferdinand Eyring was a prominent midlevel leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in the United States and Mexico during the 19th and early20th centuries. He was also mayor of St. George, Utah. Eyring was the grandfather of chemist Henry Eyring and Camilla Eyring Kimball, wife of LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball.

Eyring was born in Coburg, SaxeCoburgGotha in what is today Germany. He was the son of Edward Christian Eyring and Ferdinandina Charlotta Caroline von Blomberg. His mother was the daughter of Viscount Georg Louis von Blomberg who served in the government of King Frederich Wilhelm III of Prussia. Eyrings father was a pharmacist in a long standing family business but he suffered economic reverses and by the time Edward Eyring died in about 1850 Henry was left an orphan with little money.

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