From the description of Diaries, 1845-1877. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 86162416
George Laub Lee (1814-1880) was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His father died when George was eight, and he was sent to live with a man named George Weydler. Laub received a limited education and went into carpentry. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842, and soon after traveled to Pittsburgh, where he met Joseph Smith, and then on to Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1845 he was adopted by John Doyle Lee as his "sealed son,"** and both Laub and his wife Mary Jane took 'Lee' as their surname. Following the expulsion of the Mormons from Illinois and Missouri, the Laubs traveled with Lee to Utah. Laub spent most of the rest of his life in and around Salt Lake City.
** From WIkipedia: The law of adoption was a ritual practiced in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1846 and 1894 in which men who held the priesthood were sealed in a father–son relationship to other men who were not part of nor even distantly related to their immediate nuclear family.
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From https://www.deseret.com/2013/9/18/20456954/picturing-history-george-laub-nauvoo-home:
George Laub was one of four scribes who worked to record Joseph Smith's well-known sermon of April 7, 1844. This address to the Saints is frequently referred to as the King Follett Sermon.
George Laub worked on the Mansion House, the temple quarry and other sites where he could use his skills as a master carpenter.

From https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/george-laubs-nauvoo-journal/:
Despite his unusually informative and moving Nauvoo Journal, George Laub is not well known to Latter-day Saints, or even to students of Mormon history. He was one of a number of faithful followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young who did not achieve notoriety—either through prominent position or through dramatic apostasy. But he was one of those ordinary Saints whose life was brushed by extraordinary events and forces and to whom our generation is increasingly attracted as we seek fuller understanding, both of our pioneer past, and of our own possibilities, from such humble but engaging lives.

We are fortunate indeed to have this slim journal preserved in the LDS Church Archives. It not only provides essentially all we know of George Laub's early life but also gives us a unique record of such things as some of Joseph Smith's sermons, his martyrdom, and the earliest account of the 1844 "transfiguration" of Brigham Young when he was given the Prophet's "mantle" of authority. The journal represents one of those small miracles of nineteenth century Mormonism that we are still learning to appreciate more fully, partly because of their rarity in the twentieth—that a person without literary training, engaged often in desperate struggles for survival against men and nature, should be moved by his faith to make the effort to create a remarkably literate and enduring account of his great loyalties, his joys, his losses, of the events and ideas that shaped his life.
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From George Laub's Journal Introduction (https://byustudies.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/18.2EnglandGeorge.pdf):
Two parts of Laub's Nauvoo journal are perhaps of most value to students of Mormon history and doctrine: first, his account of speeches by Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and others, including what appears to be a version of the Prophet's famous "King Follett Discourse" of 7 April 1844, a sermon which explores startling ideas about the nature of God and the universe and about man's eternal identity and potential godhood; second, his recollection, recorded in March 1846 and therefore the earliest specific reference yet found, that at the public confrontation with Sidney Rigdon on 8 August 1844, after Joseph Smith was killed, "when President Young arose to address the congregation his Voice was the Voice of Bro. Joseph and his face appeared as Joseph's face." But there are many other riches, including unique records of sermons by Hyrum Smith on "the plurality of gods" and the only known summary of a vigorous speech given by Brigham Young at the dedication of the Seventies' Hall in December 1844 ("Follow me and I will lead you into the Kingdom and if I do not then my Soul for yours").
Contributor: Steve Ingham (48083586)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

His parents are John Laub (1776-1821) and Barbara (Ressler) Laub (1790-1828).

He was married to Mary Jane Meginness (1831-1872) on Jan 6, 1846 in Nauvoo, Illinois. He later married Ann Elizabeth Erickson (1839-1926) of Denmark on Mar 11, 1856 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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1870 United States Federal Census

Name: George Laub
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1816 Age in 1870: 54
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: St George, Washington, Utah Territory
Race: WhiteGender: Male
Post Office: St George

Household Members: Name Age
George Laub 54
Mary Laub 41
Luema Laub 22
John Laub 15
Mary F Laub 13
Rachel Laub 10
William Laub 8
Carolina Laub 6
Corrinda Laub 3

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1880 United States Federal Census

Name: George Laub
Home in 1880: Saint George, Washington, Utah
Age: 64 Est Birth Year: abt 1816
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Anna E.
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Carpenter
Marital Status: Married
Race: White Gender: Male

Household Members:
Name Age
George Laub 64
Anna E. Laub 40
Jacob Laub 17
George Laub 15
Caroline Laub 15
Isaac Laub 9
Charles Laub 6
Oliver Laub 3
Mark Laub 8M
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Utah Cemetery Inventory

Name: George Laub
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Death Date: 14 Dec 1880
Cemetery: St. George City Cemetery
Source: Sexton / Grant
Grave Location: A_E_94_5
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