George Franklin Richards was born in Farmington, Utah Territory, to Franklin D. Richards and Nanny Lynn Longstroth Richards.

Richards was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Oliver Lee Robinson.

Richards was ordained an elder by his father, Franklin D. Richards; he also received his endowment in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.

Richards began attending the University of Deseret, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.

Richards graduated from the University of Deseret.

Richards began work as a clerk, carpenter, and lumberyard foreman for the Utah Central Railroad Company.

Richards married Alice Almira Robinson in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory; they began living in Salt Lake City.

George and Alice Richards moved to Farmington, Utah Territory, to take care of Richards’s mother.

Richards was set apart as a home missionary in the Davis Stake.

Richards was set apart as president of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association in Farmington, Utah Territory.

Richards was ordained a seventy by Seymour B. Young.

Richards and his family moved to Plymouth, Utah Territory.

Richards and his family left for Nephi, Utah Territory, to help settle the estate of his deceased brother-in-law, Joel Grover; he stayed in Nephi for several months.

Richards moved to Tooele, Utah Territory, to manage the ranch of his uncle Abraham F. Doremus.

Richards and his family moved back to Plymouth.

Richards was ordained a high priest and set apart as second counselor to Hugh S. Gowans in the Tooele Stake presidency.

Richards attended services at which Wilford Woodruff laid the Salt Lake Temple capstone.

Richards attended the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, with the dedicatory prayer given by Wilford Woodruff.

Richards was ordained and set apart as patriarch of the Tooele Stake by Francis M. Lyman of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Richards gave his first patriarchal blessing to his son George F. Richards Jr.

Richards’s daughter Amy May died at age four.

Richards stopped managing the Doremus farm and purchased his own farm in Tooele; he also started a lumber and implement business in Tooele.

Richards served in the Utah state legislature as a representative from Tooele County.

Richards’s daughter Alverda died at age one.

Richards became the Tooele correspondent for the Deseret News, the church-owned newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Richards became first counselor in the Tooele Stake presidency.

George and Alice Richards accompanied Joseph F. Smith and other church leaders to the eastern United States to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth.

Richards was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Richards was ordained an apostle by church president Joseph F. Smith.

Richards and his family moved to Salt Lake City.

Richards served as president of the church’s European Mission, headquartered in Liverpool, England.

Richards arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, from the European Mission.

The church’s First Presidency appointed Richards as president of the Salt Lake Temple.

Richards was set apart by church president Heber J. Grant as president of the Salt Lake Temple, with Joseph Fielding Smith and Albert Davis as counselors.

Alice Richards was set apart to preside over women working in the Salt Lake Temple.

Richards traveled to Alberta, Canada, to attend the dedication of the Alberta Temple.

Richards traveled to Mesa, Arizona, to attend the dedication of the Arizona Temple.

Richards accompanied Antoine R. Ivins, a member of the First Council of the Seventy, to Mexico in an attempt to reconcile with a dissident group of church members known as Third Conventionists.

Richards was released as president of the Salt Lake Temple; he was then set apart as acting patriarch to the church and superintendent of all temples by church president Heber J. Grant.

Richards was released as acting patriarch to the church.

Richards set apart George Albert Smith as president of church.

Richards was sustained and set apart as president of Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Richards attended all dedicatory sessions of Idaho Falls Temple.

Alice Richards died in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The funeral for Alice Richards was held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Richards married Betsy (Bessie) Hollings.

Richards died in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Richards’s funeral was held in Salt Lake City, Utah.