Conway Ballantyne Sonne (December 28, 1917 – June 30, 1995) was a
Standard Oil Company of California
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employee, the author of several books, and a prominent leader in
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in
Palo Alto, California.
Biography
Sonne was born in
Logan
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,
Utah to
Alma Sonne
Alma Sonne (March 5, 1884 – November 27, 1977) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1941 until his death.
Sonne was born in Logan, Utah Territory. He graduated from Brigham Young College ...
, who would later become a
general authority in the LDS Church. As a young man, Conway Sonne was a
Mormon missionary
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in the LDS Church's
New England States
Mission.
Sonne received a
bachelor's degree from
Utah State University and an
MBA from
Harvard Business School
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.
From 1943 to 1946 Sonne served as a financial analyst and liaison officer with the United States Army Quartermaster Corps. From 1949 to 1981 he served as a financial officer of Standard Oil. He also served as a trustee of the National Maritime Museum Association.
In the LDS Church, Sonne served as a first counselor in the
bishopric of the Palo Alto
Ward, a member of the
high council of the Palo Alto
Stake
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, and in several other callings.
The books Sonne wrote were ''Knight of the Kingdom: The Story of
Richard Ballantyne
Richard Ballantyne (August 26, 1817 – November 8, 1898) was the founder of the Sunday School of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, having begun the program in December 1849. He was also a Mormon pioneer and missionary.
Ballanty ...
'' (1949), ''What Would You Write'' (1956), ''World of Wakara'' (1962), ''Saints on the Sea, A Maritime History of Mormon Migration'' (1983), ''Ships, Saints, and Mariners: A Maritime Encyclopedia of Mormon Migration'' (1987), and ''A Man Named Alma'' (1988), which was a biography of his father.
Sonne and his wife Elain Winch had four sons.
References
biography connected with his papers at the Utah State University
External links
*
* Conway B. Sonne
“Under Sail to Zion,”''
Ensign'', July 1991, p. 7
1917 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Mormon missionaries
American energy industry businesspeople
American Latter Day Saint writers
American Mormon missionaries in the United States
Harvard Business School alumni
Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement
Writers from Logan, Utah
Utah State University alumni
American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
20th-century American historians
20th-century American businesspeople
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