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Frederick James Pack (February 2, 1875 – December 2, 1938) was a professor of geology at the University of Utah and Brigham Young College and a writer on the deleterious effects of tobacco on human health. more...

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Pack was also a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), serving as the chairman of the Gospel Doctrine Committee of the church.

Early life

Pack was born at Bountiful, Utah Territory to John Pack and Mary Jane Walker. Early on he attended LDS College in Salt Lake City.

Professional life

Pack attended the University of Utah, where he obtained a degree in mining engineering in 1904. By 1906, he had completed masters and Ph.D. degrees in in geology at Columbia University in New York City. In 1906 and 1907, he was a professor of geology and minerology at Brigham Young College in Logan. In 1907 he became the Deseret Professor of Geology at the University of Utah, a position he held until his death.

In 1918, Pack published Tobacco and Human Efficiency, which has been described as the most \"comprehensive or conscientious summation of the case to discourage cigarette use\" that had been produced by that date. However, Pack's work on tobacco has been criticized as being tainted with \"suppositions\" and \"moral bias\" arising from his status as a Latter-day Saint who believed that avoiding tobacco was a commandment from God.

In his later professional life, Pack created a travel company called Utah Intelligence Tours, which specialized in tours of areas in Utah and the Western United States that are of particular geological or paleontological interest.

Pack's personal and professional papers are held by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Church life

Pack was a devout member of the LDS Church. In 1892, he became an elder of the church. In 1896, Apostle Francis M. Lyman ordained him a seventy and in 1897 Apostle John W. Taylor ordained him a high priest. Pack and his wife Sadie served as LDS Church missionaries in the Colorado Mission of the church in 1896-1898. While on this mission Pack presided over the Pueblo Conference and latter the Colorado Springs Conference.

From 1911 to 1916 Pack was the Sunday School Superintendent in the Liberty Stake in Salt Lake City. From 1920 to 1930 he was a member of the high council in the same stake. In 1920, Pack became a member of the Deseret Sunday School Union General Board.

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