Spouse(s) 10 wives Children 60 children | Signature Name Christopher Layton | |
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Born March 8, 1821
Thorncote Green, Northill, Bedfordshire, England ( 1821-03-08 ) Resting place Kaysville City Cemetery
41°02′42″N 111°55′34″W / 41.045°N 111.926°W / 41.045; -111.926 (Kaysville City Cemetery) Parents Samuel Layton
Isabella Wheeler Died August 7, 1898, Kaysville, Utah, United States Books Autobiography of Christopher Layton: With an Account of His Funeral, a Personal Sketch, Etc., and Genealogical Appendix | ||
Christopher Layton (March 8, 1821 – August 7, 1898) was a Mormon colonizer and Patriarch who founded the cities of Kaysville, Utah, Layton, Utah, and Thatcher, Arizona. Layton, Utah is named after him.
Layton was born at Thorncote Green, Northill, Bedfordshire, England. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842 and a year later emigrated to the United States.
In 1846, Layton joined the Mormon Battalion. In 1852, he moved to Kaysville, Utah Territory.
In 1866-1867 Layton was a member of the Utah Territorial legislature.
From 1883 to 1898, he served as president of the St. Joseph Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thatcher, Arizona.
Christopher Layton reveals himself as a common man who achieved great success as a business man, a Church man and particularly as a family man, being a father of sixty five children and a husband to ten wives. The courage, perseverance, and faith of the man during trials, sorrow, despair, persecutions and rebuff inspires the reader and marks Layton as one of the great men in pioneer Mormonism.