Editing Nathan Eldon Tanner (section)

==Early life==
Tanner was born on May 9, 1898, in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], to Nathan William Tanner and Sarah Edna Brown Tanner. He had seven younger siblings.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=McCune|first=George M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wvlAAAACAAJ|title=Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph Smith–History|publisher=Hawkes Publishing|year=1991|isbn=9780890365182|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|pages=136}}</ref> His family emigrated to [[Canada]] and had a farmstead in [[Aetna, Alberta|Aetna]], south of [[Cardston, Alberta]], where he grew up and attended grade school. He attended high school at Knight Academy in [[Raymond, Alberta|Raymond]] and received some postsecondary education at Calgary Normal School.<ref name="LDSbio">{{cite news | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1972/11/president-n-eldon-tanner-a-man-of-integrity?lang=eng |title=President N. Eldon Tanner: A Man of Integrity|author=Hugh B. Brown|publisher=LDS Church|date=November 1972|page=13|work=[[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]|author-link=Hugh B. Brown}}</ref>

Tanner began his working life at a grocery store and butcher shop. He obtained a job teaching at a small school in [[Hill Spring]] in 1919. He met Sara Isabelle Merrill at the school and married her on December 20, 1919<ref name="LDSbio"/> and they became the parents of five daughters.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Flake|first1=Lawrence R.|title=Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation|date=2001|publisher=Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University|location=Provo, UT|pages=223–28|url=https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/prophets-and-apostles-last-dispensation/first-counselors-first-presidency/18-nathan-eldon}}</ref>

Along with teaching, Tanner also established his own general store, which later also became the local post office, to supplement his family income. The store was successful enough that he left his first teaching job in Hill Spring to run the store full-time.<ref name="LDSbio"/>

Tanner eventually became a high school teacher<ref name="LDSbio" /> and school principal in Cardston.<ref name=":0" /> He got his start in politics as a councillor on the Cardston Town Council.<ref name="LDSbio"/>