Leonard John Nuttall was a private secretary for John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff, and was a member of the Council of Fifty who kept a detailed journal of the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.
Nuttall was born in Liverpool, England and emigrated to Utah Territory in 1852 after converting to Mormonism. He served in the militia in Utah County, Utah and was first elected to the Provo City Council in 1861. He served as a justice of the peace and alderman in that city as well. He also served as the auditor and recorder of Provo from 1861 until 1875. From 1864 until 1875 he served as Utah County Clerk and clerk of the county probate court. He served as the secretary of the Provo CoOperative Mercantile Institution from its inception in 1869.
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