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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Osborne John
Peder Widtsoe (December 12, 1877 - March 14, 1920) was principal of the
Latter-day Saints University in Salt Lake City, Utah and a professor of
English at the University of Utah. He was also the first missionary of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon or LDS Church)
to serve in Rarotonga. Widtsoe was born in Namsos, Norway. He was the
brother of John A. Widtsoe. He was baptized in 1886 in Utah. From
1897-1901 Widtsoe served as an LDS missionary in the Society Islands and
in the Cook Islands including Rarotonga. Rarotonga has since issued a
stamp featuring Widtsoe. Widtsoe married Rosetta Homer and they had at
least two children. Widtsoe received his bachelors degree from what is
now Utah State University and his masters degree from Harvard
University. He had also been a student at Brigham Young College in
Logan, Utah.
